Subject Outline / Syllabus: Production automation and the role of the computer in modern manufacturing systems via a comprehensive overview
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of applications of advanced technologies in manufacturing and their business impact on the competitive dimensions of cost, flexibility, quality and deliverability. Particular topics include: cellular and flexible manufacturing systems, fundamentals of automation, numerical control programming, material handling and storage, automatically-guided vehicles, manufacturing information systems, production planning and control, automatic identification and data collection, lean and agile manufacturing, computeraided process planning, quality control.
Textbooks (most recent edition is recommended):
Groover, Mikell P., Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-integrated Manufacturing, Prentice Hall.
James Cao, William J. Stevenson, Marie-Claude Bolduc, Mehran Hojati, La gestion des opérations, Chenelière.
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