WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 - 2014
ME 455
MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND SIMULATIONS
(ELECTIVE - II)
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
Unit-I
Manufacturing Systems: Definition of systems; basic concepts and problems concerning systems; Systems design: Decision making procedures; Structural, Transformational and procedural aspects of manufacturing; Modes of production. Process systems for manufacturing; logistic systems; material flow & technological information flow. Management and information systems for manufacturing: Managerial information flow in manufacturing systems.
Unit-II
Information Systems: Fundamentals of information technology, information systems, information networking, parts oriented production information systems, and computerized production scheduling, online production control systems. Computer based production management systems. Automation systems for manufacturing: Industrial automation, kinds of automation, principles of CIM, effectiveness of CIM, factory automation, automatic machine tools for mass production, NC machine tools, computer controlled manufacturing systems, FMS, automated assembly, automatic material handling, automatic inspection and testing, computer integrated automation systems - unmanned factory.
Unit-III
System Models: Concepts, continuous and Discrete systems, systems modeling, type of models, subsystems, corporate model, system study. System simulation: Techniques, comparison of simulation and analytical methods, types of simulation, distributed log model, cobweb models.
Unit-IV
Continuous system simulation: Numerical solution of differential equation, analog computers, hybrid computers, continuous system simulation languages CSMP, system dynamic growth models, logistic curves. Discrete systems simulation: Events generation of arrival patterns, simulation programming tasks, analysis of simulation output. Queuing theory: Arrival pattern distribution, service times, queuing disciplines, and measure of queues.
Unit-V
GPSS and SIMSCRIPT: General description of GPSS and SIMSCRIPT, programming in GPSS Simulation Programming Techniques: Data structures, implementation of activities, event and queues, event scanning, simulation algorithms in GPSS and SIMSCRIPT.
Suggested Reading:
- 1.David Bedworth & James Bailey, Integrated production control system management, analysis & design, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- 2.Ronald Zskin & Charles Standridge, Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- 3.Geofery Gordan, Systems Simulation, Prentice Hall, 1980.
- 4.Deo. N., System Simulation with Digital Computers, Prentice Hall, 1980.