Mass production and manufacturing processes
2022/2023- Purpose and learning objectives
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).
Knowledge
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:
Skills
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. - Type of instruction
Casework and group work
- Exam
The learning outcomes of the exam are identical with the learning outcomes of the subject(s)/modul(es)
Exam in one or more subjectsSubject/module is tested standaloneType of examCombined written and oral examinationOral exam based on a written project.Formal requirementsThe report must comply with the following criterias:
Max. 10 actual pages (A4), text and graphics equally represented, i.e. max 5 written pages x 2400 = 12.000 characters incl. spaces
At least half of the report must consist of graphical illustrations, such as tables, diagrams, sketches, drawings, graphs, calculations and images.
Use an easily readable font in size 12
Exceeding the rapport extent (see above) can affect the grade. If the difference is significant, - ie more than 25% - then formal requirements are not observed and it could result in a rejection of the project.
Please note that the projects will be checked for plagiarised content. Plagiarised content also includes the reuse of more than one sentence from your previous projects unless the source is clearly stated.
Hand-in
Upload a 10 pages report (pdf file) in WISEflow
Present a quantified labour division of the workload on the last slide of the group presentationIndividual exam or group examGroup, 3-6 max participantsExam languagesDanish (Norwegian/Swedish)DurationThe exam is based on an oral 10 minutes group presentation.
In the presentation, we expect to see a visually coherent and well-documented presentation that conveys the group's decision process, documenting relevant aspects from the development process, the systematic selection of materials, as well as the statics and strength calculations of critical points in your construction.
The oral plenary presentation is followed by a 15 minutes individual examination. In this time frame questioning, votation, and a brief feedback is included.
Grades will be given on WISEflow.Type of evaluation7-point grading scaleExaminersInternal censureExam criteriaYour report - and presentation - should include the following topics:
Business Technology
Set up the project team and the project schedule
Find a location and consider the culture and cooperate organization
Consider which parts to buy and which ones to manufacture
Calculate the investments necessary to start the new production facilities
Calculate the operation costs and break even
Production Technology
Layout the production and consider the production method
Draw an operation diagram of materials, manufacturing and assembling processes. Calculate the process time in a process diagram
Plan the daily operations and machine maintenance with the necessary resources in a Gantt Chart
Materials and warehouse planning
Use production simulation to verify the production planning and consider the OEE
Materials and manufacturing processes
Detailed descriptions of materials, manufacturing processes and machine capacity
Bill of material
End of life considerations & take back policy
In the subject Mass production and manufacturing processes you will receive 94 hours of instruction, which corresponds to 125 lessons (1 lesson = 45 min.) and 31% of your total workload for the subject.
The teaching primarily consists of the following activities: cases, classroom teaching, group work, exercises, internal lecturers.
The preparation primarily consists of the following activities: group work, reading your own notes, reading the curriculum, searching for information.
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*KEA can deviate from the number of hours if this is justified by special circumstances