Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
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The official GTU curriculum for Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (subject code 2181921) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 51 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 (2181921)Unit 1 Introduction
- General design principles for manufacturability: strength and mechanical factors
- mechanisms selection
- evaluation method
- Process capability: Feature tolerances
- Geometric tolerances
- Assembly limits
- Datum features, and Tolerance stacks
Unit 2 Factors Influencing form Design
- Working principle
- Design- Possible solutions
- Materials choice
- Influence of materials on form design
- form design of Welded members
- forgings and castings
Unit 3 Component Design-I
- Machining Consideration: Design features to facilitate machining: drills
- milling cutters
- Doweling procedures
- counter sunk screws
- Reduction of machined area
- simplification by separation
- simplification by amalgamation
- Design for machinability
- Design for economy
- Design for clampability
- Design for accessibility
- Design for assembly
Unit 4 Component Design-II
- Casting Consideration: Redesign of castings based on parting line considerations
- Minimizing core requirements
- machined holes
- redesign of cast members to obviate cores
- Identification of uneconomical design
- Modifying the design
- group technology
- Computer Applications for DFMA
Unit 5 Design for the Environment
- Environmental objectives
- Global issues
- Regional and local issues
- Basic DFE methods
- Design guide lines
- Example application
- Lifecycle assessment
- Basic method
- Environmentally responsible product assessment
- Weighted sum assessment method
- Lifecycle assessment method
- Techniques to reduce environmental impact
- Design to minimize material usage
- Design for disassembly
- Design for recyclability
- Design for remanufacture
- Design for energy efficiency
- Design to regulations and standards
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