ENGR9004 Production Engineering GE

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Overview

Production Engineering within a manufacturing or sustainment business involves ensuring that equipment and processes used in various industry sectors operate at an optimal effectiveness, aligned to business and environmental goals. Production Engineering ensures that all equipment is maintained and is operating at peak level of production, considering the inherent complexities … For more content click the Read More button below. This topic explores the key building blocks of effective and sustainable Production Engineering and the tools and techniques that can be used to develop a highly effective and efficient process driven production environment. It will address the key issues of Lean thinking strategy through to understanding how to apply critical thinking into the production environment. Areas covered will include reliability and maintainability through to process layout and flow, whilst creating a deeper understanding of how standards underpin this approach. The linkages between manufacturing technology, automation and integration into the workplace will be explored along with the role that production engineering has in providing quality controls within a process. The topic will look at the human side of production and sustainment from accountability for a process and associated flow through to how ergonomics and safety are integrated within a production process. It will also cover issues relating to sustainable engineering including the areas of energy efficient design, power management and the environmental impact assessment of production systems, including the impact of ISO14000.

This topic explores the key building blocks of effective and sustainable Production Engineering and the tools and techniques that can be used to develop a highly effective and efficient process driven production environment. It will address the key issues of Lean thinking strategy through to understanding how to apply critical thinking into the production environment. Areas covered will include reliability and maintainability through to process layout and flow, whilst creating a deeper understanding of how standards underpin this approach. The linkages between manufacturing technology, automation and integration into the workplace will be explored along with the role that production engineering has in providing quality controls within a process.

The topic will look at the human side of production and sustainment from accountability for a process and associated flow through to how ergonomics and safety are integrated within a production process. It will also cover issues relating to sustainable engineering including the areas of energy efficient design, power management and the environmental impact assessment of production systems, including the impact of ISO14000.

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Aims

This topic aims to expose participants to key production engineering tools and methodologies that can be integrated into a range of Manufacturing, Production, Jobbing Shop and sustainment scenarios. The topic provides an insight into various operational tools and techniques focused on the elimination of waste to increase productive and environmentally sustainable use of resources to maximise value. This topic reviews Production Engineering and Lean Thinking concepts and through industrial case studies and examples will enable you to assess how these two techniques can work together, evaluating the benefits and limitations. It provides detailed working insight of the tools and their integration into workplace along with a deep knowledge of how to apply these tools within a variety of situations. It also shows the linkages between people, equipment, environment and processes aligned to the development of a safe, highly effective and efficient workplaces. The topic aims to provide the student with the capability to add rigor and value back into their respective workplace through the understanding and application of core production engineering skills and tools. It integrates the fields of manufacturing, industrial and environmental engineering, operations research, logistics and management science.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

Design a Processes flow through Value Stream mapping and the associated development of layout, process steps, automation and other PE tools

Critique optimisation and simulation techniques that provide up front vision of issues and solutions before implementation

Apply a Lean Thinking, standardised work approach to a process

Effectively employ multiple production engineering tools such as predictive maintenance, Global 8D, FMEA’s, SMED, Control Plans, Theory of Constraints, Lean layout, Quick Changeover and Process Work Balance

Provide an understanding of the application of automation techniques and mechatronics in manufacturing and sustainment

Evaluate the human, environmental (energy efficient design, power management and the accommodation of ISO14000) and financial (cost, time and resource) factors within a process

Understand and explain the future directions in production engineering

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Production Engineering GE

ENGR9004

4.5 Units