Group A
Engineering design process
and its structure. Identification and analysis of need, product design
specifications, standards of performance and constraints.
Searching for design
concepts; morphological analysis, brainstorming. Evaluation of design concepts
for physical reliability, economic feasibility and utility.
Detailed design; design for
manufacture, assembly, shipping, maintenance, use, and recyclability.
Design checks for clarity,
simplicity, modularity and safety. Standardization and size ranges. Reliability
and robust design. Design organization and communication, . technical reports,
drawings, presentations and models.
Concept of manufacturing;
classification of manufacturing processes. Fundamentals of casting. Basic
understanding of commonly used casting processes (sand casting, investment
casting and permanent mould casting processes).
Fundamentals of metal
forming; hot and cold working; basic understanding of primary metal forming
processes (rolling, forging, extrusion and drawing processes, punching and
blanking).
Group B
Fundamentals of metal cutting; tool-work interaction for
production of machined surfaces. Classification of machining processes. Basic
machining operations (turning, shaping, planning, drilling and milling
processes).
Fundamentals of grinding and finishing; overview of
unconventional machining processes; fundamentals of welding processes;
introduction to primary welding and allied processes; selection of
manufacturing processes. Design for manufacturability.
Need for integration-commercial, economic and technological
perspective; basic tools of integration; concept of a system. introduction to
information technology and its elements.
Introduction to group technology; introduction to simulation
and database management systems.
Elements of integration:-eontrol1ers, sensors, robots,
automated machines; AGVs, AS, RS, etc.
Product and process design- for integration; design for
economic manufacturing; design for manufacturing integration.
Introduction to computer aided process planning; selection
of machine tools.
