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 ofmanufacturing systems. Discrete event dynamic systems and optimization.
Textbook(s)
Introduction to Discrete Event SystemsCourse 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