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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Mechanical Engineering (administered by the Learning Partnerships Office) |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at Swindon College |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| 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 and process improvement techniques and to use the techniques of value engineering. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the unit the students should be able to: * analyse the principles of lean manufacturing; * evaluate and improve systems by applying the principal process improvement techniques; * evaluate and improve the design of products using value analysis engineering. Skills: During this unit students should gain the following skills: Intellectual * gathering, processing and analysing technical information (F, A) * formulating outcomes (F, A) Professional * making written and verbal presentations (F, A) * using design techniques (T, F,A) Practical * developing identification and observational skills to maintain records and contribute to reports (T, A) * using value engineering techniques (T, F,A) Key * writing reports (F, 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. |
| Programme availability: |
LP20603 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Programmes administered by the Learning Partnerships Office
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