Introduction to Manufacturing Technology

This course introduces students to some fundamentals of manufacturing technology and its function in product development, production, and business. Topics taught to include an introduction to manufacturing technology and its role in concurrent engineering, metallic and non-metallic material behaviours, casting, forming, and shaping processes. Aspects of material removal, joining and surface technology are exposed later. Finally, the engineering metrology and quality assurance, manufacturing system and automation, human factors, and manufacturing costing. This course introduces students to various design aspects in the application of product development. Design plays an important role in transforming product ideas into a physical form which is vital to product development. The design function includes engineering design and industrial design. It is complemented by marketing and manufacturing.

Course Outcome

CO1 - Ability to define and discuss the relationship between manufacturing technology and new product development describe

and identify the role of manufacturing technology in product design production and business.

CO2 - Ability to define the fundamentals of materials, describe and discuss the behavior and manufacturing properties, define forming and shaping process, and discuss and choose the related process and equipments.

CO3 - Ability to define material removal processes, discuss and choose the related process and equipment, define the joining processes and surface technology, discuss and justify the related process and equipments.