Computer Aided Manufacturing
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Computer Aided Manufacturing Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Computer Aided Manufacturing (subject code 3161917) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 6 divides the course into 7 units, covering 63 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3161917)Unit 1 Computer Aided Manufacturing
- CAM Concepts
- Objectives & scope
- Nature &Type of manufacturing system
- Benefits of CAM, Role of management in CAM, Concepts of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
- Impact of CIM on personnel
- Role of manufacturing engineers
- CIM Wheel to understand basic functions
Unit 2 NC/CNC Machine Tools
- NC and CNC Technology: Types
- Specification and components
- Construction Details
- Sensors and Actuators
- CNC hardware: Re circulating ball screw
- anti friction slides
- step/servo motors
- Axis designation
- NC/CNC tooling
- Fundamentals of Part programming
- Types of format
- Part Programming for drilling
- lathe and milling machine operations
- do loops
- canned Cycles
- parametric subroutines
Unit 3 Programmable Logic Controllers
- Relay Device components
- Programmable controller architecture
- programming a programmable controller
- tools for PLC logic design
Unit 4 Group Technology and CAPP
- part families
- part classification and coding systems: OPITZ, PFA, FFA, Cell design
- rank order clustering
- composite part concepts
- Benefits of group technology
- Approaches to Process Planning
- Different CAPP system
- application and benefits
Unit 5 Flexible Manufacturing System
- Introduction & Component of FMS, Needs of FMS, general FMS consideration
- Types of flexibility and FMS, FMS lay out and advantages
- Automated material handling system: Types and Application
- Automated Storage and Retrieval System
- Automated Guided Vehicles
- Cellular manufacturing
- Tool Management
- Tool supply system
- Tool Monitoring System
- 07 Subject Code: 3161917 W.e.f 2018-19 Flexible Fixturing
- Flexible Assembly Systems
Unit 6 Robot Technology
- Introduction: Robot Anatomy
- Laws of Robot
- Human System and Robotics
- Coordinate system
- Specifications of Robot
- Power sources
- actuators and Transducers
- Robotic Sensors
- Robot Safety
- Robot Programming and Robot Applications
- Economic Considerations of Robotics system
- Robot Kinematics and Dynamics
- Robot Arm Dynamics
- Concepts of Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence
Unit 7 Integrated Production Management System
- PPC fundamentals
- Problems with PPC, Introduction to ERP
- Just in Time philosophy: JIT & GT applied to FMS, concepts of Expert System in Manufacturing and Management Information System
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