Manufacturing Systems Design

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Systems and Controls

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Prerequisites: None.

Catalog Description

Analytic and simulation tools for design, control and optimization of
manufacturing systems. Discrete event dynamic systems and optimization.

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

Introduction (1 week)
The importance of optimization in manufacturing
Production control strategies
The relationship between design, control and optimization
The role of simulation in systems optimization

The Manufacturing Layout Problem (3 weeks)
Cell design and machine grouping within a cell
Inter-cell layout problems and resource allocation
Optimization methods: simulated annealing and genetic algorithms

Resource Allocation Problems (4 weeks)
Resource allocation in manufacturing systems
Modeling by discrete event dynamic systems
Perturbation analysis
Petri networks and event graphs
Cycle-time optimization
Numerical simulation and optimization techniques

Supply Managament and Control (3 weeks)
Inventory and backlogging
Uncertain yield times and their effects on production schedules
Optimal supply managament: numerical algorithms

Scheduling Problems (3 weeks)
NP hardness and instability
The perturbation problem and sensitivity analysis
Numerical optimization