Description
Objectives
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of manufacturing systems through a combination of theoretical and laboratorial work, by applying the theoretical concepts to a Flexible Manufacturing Cell. The course will give a good theoretical and experimental background on modeling, analysis, design, control, simulation, and planning of resource and task allocation in production systems (manufacturing and services).
Syllabus
Introduction to manufacturing and service models. Definition of integrated control of production systems. Manufacturing models. Jobs, machines and resources. Service models. Activities and resources in service settings. Project planning and scheduling. Machine scheduling and job shop scheduling. Single machine and parallel machine models. Job shop and mathematical programming. Shifting bottleneck heuristic. Scheduling of flexible assembling machines. Flow shop problems. Flow shop with working stations. Flexible flow shop. Economic lot scheduling. Planning and scheduling in supply chains. Planning and scheduling in services. Interval scheduling, reservations and timetabling. Planning and scheduling in sports and entertainment. Timetabling in transportation. Simulation. Discrete-event simulation and simulation using multi-agents. Workforce scheduling. Systems design and implementation using simulation software. System architectures. Software for planning and scheduling.
Prerequisites
Approval in Advanced Automation or equivalent course.
Cross Competence Component
Laboratory project done in group requires critical and inovative reasoning, decision making, team work, leadership, oral communication skills, use of computer multimedia tools (20% of the evaluation component of the laboratory project).
Laboratorial Component
Development of simulation models is adequate software simulation tools. Implementation of planning and scheduling in a flexible manufacturing cell.
Programming And Computing Component
Use of several software environment.
Ethical Principles
All members of a group are responsible for the group’s work In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.