This document discusses technical advancements in manufacturing industries, including the evolution from traditional to concurrent engineering. It describes design for manufacturing, assembly, reliability, and other factors. The document also covers industrial automation, including computing, controllers, actuators, sensors and software. It defines production systems and outlines various types of automation from fixed to programmable to flexible, along with their characteristics. Finally, it briefly mentions the future of these areas.

1. Mechanical Engineering
Technical Advancements in Industries
Naseel Ibnu Azeez M.P.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
MEA Engineering College, Perinthalmanna.

2. Engineering the thoughts……!

3. Story of products
CustomerDesigner DistributionProduction

4. Traditional Engineering

5. Concurrent Engineering

6. Who Casts the biggest shadow ?

8. Design for X
X=MANUFACTURING
X=ASSEMBLY
X=RELIABILITY
X=MAINTAINABILITY
X=SERVICEABILITY
X=ENVIRONMENT
X=LIFE CYCLE COST

9. Industrial automation

12. Industrial Automation - Computing
 Computers
 Controllers
 Actuators
 Sensors
 Software

13. Production System Defined
A collection of people, equipment, and procedures
organized to accomplish the manufacturing
operations of a company

14. Facilities – Factory and Equipment
Factory, production machines and tooling, material
handling equipment, inspection equipment, and
computer systems that control the manufacturing
operations

15. Manufacturing Support Systems
• Business functions - sales and marketing, order entry, cost accounting,
customer billing
• Product design - research and development, design engineering, prototype
shop
• Manufacturing planning - process planning, production planning, MRP,
capacity planning
• Manufacturing control
shop floor control,
inventory control, quality control

16. Computer Integrated Manufacturing

17. Industrial Automation - Machines
• Storage Systems
• Handling Systems
• Assembly Lines
• Assembly Cells
• Machines
• Actuators
• Sensors
• Production Lines
• Production Cells
• Machines
• Actuators
• Sensors

19. Automated production line

22. Three Automation Types
Programmable
Automation
Flexible
Automation
Fixed
Automation
Variety
Quantity

23. Fixed Automation
Sequence of processing (or assembly) operations is fixed
by the equipment configuration
Typical features:
• Suited to high production quantities
• High initial investment for custom-engineered
equipment
• High production rates
• Relatively inflexible in accommodating product variety

24. Programmable Automation
Capability to change the sequence of operations throug
reprogramming to accommodate different product
configurations
Typical features:
• High investment in programmable equipment
• Lower production rates than fixed automation
• Flexibility to deal with variations and changes in
product configuration
• Most suitable for batch production
• Physical setup and part program must be changed
between jobs (batches)

25. Flexible Automation
System is capable of changing over from one job to the
next with little lost time between jobs
Typical features:
• High investment for custom-engineered system
• Continuous production of variable mixes of products
• Medium production rates
• Flexibility to deal with soft product variety

26. Automation
Migration
Strategy

27. Programmable Logic Control
PLC

28. DCS
Distributed Control System

29. Supervisory control and data acquisition
SCADA

30. Condition Monitoring

31. Design for X
X=MANUFACTURING
X=ASSEMBLY
X=RELIABILITY
X=MAINTAINABILITY
X=SERVICEABILITY
X=ENVIRONMENT
X=LIFE CYCLE COST

32. Design for uni-directional
assembly preferably
using gravity. Assembly to
a stable base
Design parts by considering access and visibility
for ease of insertion
Self Aligned Parts Avoid separate fasteners: design the fastening
functions into the parts.
Uni-directional insertion

33. Use hustle free joining methods
Snap Joints

34. MISTAKE PROOFING ISSUES
(POKA-YOKE)
• Cannot assemble wrong part
• Cannot omit part
• Cannot assemble part wrong way around.

36. Future ?