M.Tech I Year I Semester (R17)
Manufacturing Systems & Control: Automated Manufacturing Systems – Modeling – Role of performance modeling – simulation models-Analytical models. Product cycle – Manufacturing automation – Economics of scale and scope – input/output model – plant configurations. Performance measures – Manufacturing lead time – Work in process – Machine utilization – Throughput – Capacity – Flexibility – Performability – Quality Control Systems – Control system architecture – Factory communications – Local area network interconnections – Manufacturing automation protocol – Database management system.
Manufacturing Processes: Examples of stochastics processes – Poisson process - Discrete time Markov chain models – Definition and notation – Sojourn times in states – Examples of DTMCs in manufacturing – Chapman – Kolmogorov equation – Steady-state analysis. Continuous Time Markov Chain Models – Definitions and notation – Sojourn times in states – examples of CTMCs in manufacturing – Equations for CTMC evolution – Markov model of a transfer line.Birth and Death Processes in Manufacturing – Steady state analysis of BD Processes – Typical BD processes in manufacturing.
Queuing Model: Notation for queues – Examples of queues in manufacturing systems – Performance measures – Little’s result – Steady state analysis of M/M/m queue, queues with general distributions and queues with breakdowns – Analysis of a flexible machine center.
Queuing Networks: Examples of QN models in manufacturing – Little’s law in queuing networks – Tandem queue – An open queuing network with feedback – An open central server model for FMS – Closed transfer line – Closed server model – Garden Newell networks.
Petrinets: Classical Petri Nets – Definitions – Transition firing and reachability – Representational power – properties – Manufacturing models. Stochastic Petri Nets – Exponential timed Petri Nets – Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets – modeling of KANBAN systems – Manufacturing models.
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