Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
AS20248: 21st century manufacturing |
 Credits: |
5 |
| Level: |
Intermediate |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 1 at Swindon College |
| Assessment: |
CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
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| Description: | Aims: The aims of this unit are to: * investigate lean manufacture; * investigate process improvement techniques; * use the techniques of value engineering. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit students should be able to: * describe the principles of lean manufacturing; * describe and apply the principal process improvement techniques; * design products using value analysis engineering. Skills: During this unit students should gain the following skills: Intellectual * gathering, processing and analysing technical information (A) * formulating outcomes (A) Professional * making written and verbal presentations (A) * using design techniques (F,A) Practical * developing identification and observational skills to maintain records and contribute to reports (T,A) * using value engineering techniques (F,A) Key * writing reports (A) Content: This unit concentrates on: * elimination of waste, total quality, just in time (JIT) manufacture; * sustainability, total productive maintenance (TPM), single minute exchange of dies (SMED), production cell arrangement (U shaped layout); * continuous improvement (Poke yoke, Kaizan, Schonberger's 17 points for world class manufacturing); * value engineering techniques, function value analysis and function cost analysis, design for manufacture; * design for manufacture and assembly. |