Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Definition: Flexible Manufacturing Systems enable automated, adaptable production for varied products using CNC machines, robots, and computer control.
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Detailed Syllabus
Unit 1: Automation
- Types of automation
- reasons for automating
- automation strategies
- Detroit-type automation: Automated flow lines
- methods of work part transport
- Transfer mechanisms
- buffer storage
- automation for machining operations
- Low cost automation
Unit 2: Automated Assembly Systems
- Design for automated assembly
- types of automated assembly systems
- part feeding devices
- quantitative analysis of the delivery system operation
- analysis of a single-station assembly machine
Unit 3: Group Technology
- Part families
- parts classification and coding: Features of parts classification and coding systems
- Opitz parts classification and coding system
- Production flow analysis
- Cellular manufacturing: composite part concept
- types of machine cells and layouts
- grouping parts and machines by Rank order clustering
- applications of group technology
- Single-minute exchange of die (SMED)
Unit 4: Flexible Manufacturing Systems
- FMS components
- types of FMS
- FMS work stations
- Material handling and storage system: Functions of the handling system
- FMS layout configurations
- Material handling equipment
- Computer control system
- FMS applications and benefits
Unit 5: Robotic Technology
- Joints and links
- common robot configurations
- work volume
- types of robot control
- accuracy and repeatability
- other specifications
- end effectors
- sensors in robotics
- Robot applications
Unit 6: Robot Programming
- Types of programming
- lead through programming
- motion Programming
- interlocks
- advantages and disadvantages
- Robot languages: Motion programming, simulation and off-line programming, work cell control