SE 55000 - Manufacturing System Design For Sustainability

This course prepares manufacturing and information technology leaders to design and analyze manufacturing processes to achieve manufacturing system objectives that meet internal and external customer’s quality, cost, and delivery requirements within a safe environment. The course project covers major aspects of manufacturing system design and Industry 4.0 in the context of meeting customer needs. Technology leaders and entrepreneurs learn how to work with others to develop the design of manufacturing systems that are sustainable (business, ecological, social, technological) for the long term. When to use lean and six-sigma techniques in the context of the manufacturing enterprise system design to meet customer needs will be assessed from a system design perspective, through analytical and computer simulation techniques, and through the use of physical modeling tools.

Preparation for Course
P: senior or graduate class standing in engineering or science degree program, or consent of instructor.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Learn how to select manufacturing processes and design manufacturing equipment as design parameters that are compliant with system requirements that include process cost, capability, quality, volume and flexibility. (a, c, g)
2. Understand the “5 delays” that contribute to time in system. (e, j)
3. Learn how to design a manufacturing system to reduce the “5 delays”. (e, j)
4. Learn how to design a robust and controllable manufacturing system. (c, d, e)
5. Learn how to design a manufacturing system to minimize cost to achieve a target cost over a given range of production volumes. (b, c)
6. Learn how to control/reduce manufacturing cost in the context of the system (“value stream”) design. (c, j)
7. Develop a general framework for characterizing and evaluating manufacturing processes that includes cost, quality and flexibility. (a, c)
8. Learn how to design a manufacturing system to achieve customer needs in terms of quality and delivery in “spite of”variation. (c, k)