Case 2 with the sub title Mass Production is an assignment covering 3 core areas from the PRT curriculum; Business Technology (BT), Production Engineering (PE), and Materials and Manufacturing processes (MMP).

You are working in groups to set up new production facilities in a new country with another culture to meet a new market demand of a designer lamp.

Your main task is to plan and set-up the new production facilities by viewing the new production from operational and strategic angels on a new market.

The student will gain knowledge about the practice of the profession and the subject area as well as key applied theory and methods, including:

physical properties of and suitable manufacturing processes for:
• metals, particularly steel and aluminium
• plastic, elastomers and composites
• wood
• ceramics
• new materials

joining technologies
machining processes

The student will gain knowledge about the practice of the profession and the subject area as well as key applied theory and methods in:

manufacturing and production processes
principles in production engineering, including:
• production layout
• process and product flows

basis of production, including data processing
stock building and management
lead-time in production engineering
allocation of resources
cost prices
physical work environment in production.

The student will gain knowledge about the practice of the profession and the subject area as well as key applied theory and methods in:

project management
production and stock management systems
business organisation
internationalisation.

The student will get the skills to:

apply the key methodologies and tools of the subject area as well as the skills associated with employment in the industry, including:

the use of databases/reference books for the provision of data on materials, including
• physical properties
• manufacturing processes
• environment/sustainability.

assess practice-orientated issues and suggest and select possible solutions, including:

identification, assessment and recommendation of suitable manufacturing processes

The student will get the skills to:

apply the key methodologies and tools of the subject area as well as the skills associated with employment in the industry, including:

o preparation of the manufacture of a product taking into account the company's other systems, cost price and a given production layout.

assess practice-orientated issues and suggest and select possible solutions, including:

o translating the basis of construction into basis of production
o preparation of production plans on the basis of production and use of methodical planning tools.