Department of Mechanical Engineering
MECHENG 352
Manufacturing Systems - 2011
Course Organiser:
Dr. Martin McCarthy
Lecturers:
Dr. Martin McCarthy (Room 4.605), Email: .martin.mccarthy@auckland.ac.nz
Prof. Xun Xu (Room 1.1002), Email: x.xu@auckland.ac.nz
Lectures:
Monday: 10.00 - 11.00am (3.403)
Tuesday: 12.00 - 1.00pm (3.404)
Wednesday: 10.00 - 11.00am (3.403)
Main Theme:
The topic of Manufacturing Systems engineering is concerned with the development, implementation,
evaluation and improvement of integrated systems of people, equipment, materials and processes.
Manufacturing engineers seek to develop innovative manufacturing methods and to plan the efficient use of
raw materials, money, energy and other resources. To do this they draw upon techniques from a broad
range of disciplines including engineering, social sciences, operations research, mathematics, probability
theory and human psychology and physiology.
This Year Three Manufacturing Systems course has been designed to familiarise students with some of the
techniques and tools employed by professional manufacturing engineers to deal with manufacturing
systems and their problems, to give them some skills in their use and to provide an adequate foundation for
later study.
Summary of Objectives:
A student who successfully completes this course will be:
 Able to demonstrate knowledge of the factors that contribute to efficient facilities and layout
planning, data collection/networks and material handling.
 Able to solve issues in capacity planning, line balancing, inventory management and aggregate
planning utilising industry standard modeling and simulation tools
 Develop further the ability to communicate competently both in written and oral modes.
 Able to characterise the elements of CAPP and CNC operations and technology as parts of efficient
manufacturing operation.
 Develop the ability to contribute productively in internal peer teams.
Course Structure
During this course you will be given responsibility for completing a project which involves setting up a
new manufacturing facility, planning its throughput, checking its product quality, planning manufacturing
processes and building a software model of the plant to assess its efficiency. The project has been designed
to help you to appreciate the important features of manufacturing systems design and operation as
described earlier.
The project has been divided into an integrated series of tasks. These tasks are some of those that a
manufacturing engineer would carry out when employed to help set up a new manufacturing plant such the
one proposed in this course. These include the design of its layout and facilities, the design of its
workstations and tasks, planning of its production schedules and simulating them in software as a check
that the system will operate as planned. Also to apply the principles of integrated computer aided
manufacturing to ensure product quality, design flexibility and customer satisfaction.
You will be assisted to carry out these tasks by the material presented in the course lectures and by the use
of a range of industry standard manufacturing software.
A field trip to local manufacturing plants is a part of the course and is included so that you may see some of
the material taught on the course being applied.
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Assessment:
This consists of two parts, coursework and examination.
Coursework (50%)
Task 1A, Manufacturing Facility Layout (10%)
Task 1B, Ergonomic Analysis (2.5%)
Task 2, Facilities Simulation (12.5%)
Task 2, CNC Programming a Typical Component (12.5%)
Task 3, Finite Recourse Scheduling (12.5%)
Examination (50%)
Text Book:
There is no prescribed text book
Recommended Book:
Production and operations management (5th edition), Wild R., Cassell, ISBN 0-304-33077-9
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