540:486 Automated Manufacturing Systems (3Cr)
Corequisite: 14:540:487
Introduction to computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), numerical control, hardware and programming, robotics hardware and programming, and machine vision with applications in manufacturing.

540:487 Automated Manufacturing Systems Laboratory (1Cr)
Corequisite: 14:540:486
Use of CAD/CAM equipment to design and manufacture discrete parts. Experimentation with robotics with applications in manufacturing. Use of machine vision in manufacturing.

540:520 Design of Physical Distribution Systems (3Cr)
Methods and techniques of systems modeling applied to the design and analysis of logistics systems. Topics include forecasting, single and multi-echelon inventory systems, and routing and scheduling of product delivery.

540:552 Manufacturing Project (3Cr)
Prerequisite: Instructor's Consent
Understanding of the state of technology in discrete, batch, and continuous manufacturing, hands on experience.

540:555 Simulation of Production Systems (3Cr)
Prerequisite: Probability, FORTRAN
Discrete event simulation applied to problems in manufacturing, inventory control, and engineering economics. Topics include simulation languages, estimating production system operating characteristics, comparing alternative systems and validating approximate analytical models.

540:560 Production Analysis (3Cr)
Prerequisite: 540:453 (undergraduate course in Production)
Analysis of production engineering, with emphasis on planning and control of manufacturing and service systems.

540:565 Facilities Planning and Design (3Cr)
Prerequisite: 540:311
Operations Research methodologies applied to facilities planning and design problems. Facilities layout and location problems, assembly line balancing, conveyor design and automated warehousing problems.

540:568 Automation and Computer Integrated Manufacturing I (3Cr)
Prerequisite: 540:382 or permission of the instructor
Design of automated and computer integrated manufacturing systems using programmable automation. Modeling of discrete and continuous control systems, design and analysis of functional and informational architectures, implementation of programmable controllers and factory information systems.

540:570 Applications of Robotics in Manufacturing Systems
Prerequisite: 540:343, 540:453, and undergraduate course in computer control is helpful but not required.
Integration of robots in manufacturing systems, design of robot workstations, materials handling and interactions among manufacturing cells. Economic feasibility and robot selection.

540:572 Manufacturing Process and Control
Prerequisite: 540:303 (Manufacturing Processes), and 540:382 (Computer Control) or permission of the instructor Overview of manufacturing processes and computer numerically controlled machines, basic digital control theory, design and simulation of advanced controllers, tracking control in machine tools, precision engineering, sensors-based advanced monitoring of machining systems.

540:573 Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Prerequisite: 14:540:303 (Manufacturing Processes) or permission of instructor Introduction to modeling of manufacturing processes. Metal cutting theory and modeling advanced machining processes such as hard turning and high speed milling. Modeling of non-traditional manufacturing processes (laser, water jet, electrical discharge machining, electro-chemical machining). Additive processes and rapid prototyping. Emphasis on process physics and analytical and computational procedures to predict manufactured product quality and production rate.

540:650 Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Prerequisite: 540:515
Supervisory control of discrete event dynamic systems, process monitoring, Petri nets, functional analysis, performance analysis, control specification, control verification and validation.

540:655 Performance Analysis of Manufacturing Systems
Prerequisite: 540:515, 540:525
Modeling of manufacturing systems such as flow-shops, transfer lines, job-shops and flexible manufacturing systems. Topics include problems of failures and repairs, the role of buffer inventories, capacity allocation and machine interference problem.

540:660 Inventory Control
Prerequisite: 540:515
Modeling of pure inventory systems with stochastic demand and lead times. Characterization of optimal control policies and analysis of single as well as multi-item systems with single and multiple echelons. Computational issues are emphasized.

540:665 Theory of Scheduling
Prerequisite: undergraduate production course and advanced Calculus
Advanced topics in sequencing and scheduling for manufacturing and service systems, flow-shop and job-shop static and dynamic models, multi-processor parallel machining, preemptive-resume algorithms, optimal due date problems, probabilistic sequencing, simulation and applied operations research models.

540:668 Automation and Computer Integrated Manufacturing II
Prerequisite: 40:482 or permission of the instructor
Design of automated and computer integrated manufacturing systems using programmable automation. Modeling, specification, and implementation of factory information systems. Reference models and control architectures for discrete parts manufacturing, batch process manufacturing, and semiconductor manufacturing industries.

540:673 Laser-Based Micromanufacturing
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor
Introduction to laser materials processing, micromanufacturing and MEMS. Advances and opportunities made possible by the application of laser-based micromanufacturing processes. Applications of lasermicromachining, laser thin film processing, laser micro heat treatment, laser microwelding, laser micro rapid prototyping. Process modeling, planning, and integration issues.

540:682 Process Modeling and Control
Prerequisite: 540:515, 540:568
Stationary (ARMA), non-stationary (ARIMA) time series models for process control, various automatic process control (APC) strategies, statistical process control (SPC) methods, integration of APC and SPC.
 

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