INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS DESIGN
Introduction

Several aspects define a manufacturing company's competitiveness including new product development time, production lead-time, flexibility in responding to changes in demand volume and variety, quality, price, awareness to delivery requirements, and use of state-of-the-art materials, processes and technologies.

The ability of the company to react to these factors depends critically on the capability of its manufacturing organization.

 

PROCESS

FMS
DESIGN AND CONCURRENT ENGINEERING

A FMS is defined as an integrated and automated production system containing:

(a) Flexible process equipment, normally automated machines with numeric control and equipped with quick tool change ability,

(b) Material handling equipment including transfer lines or conveyor belts, forklifts, elevators, automated guided vehicles (AGVS) as well as automated storage and inventory-handling systems such as automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS),

(c) Sophisticated computerised communication and control systems integrating process and material handling equipment, and

(d) A modern maintenance support structure that can bring the system quickly back to normal after equipment failure. The design of such facilities is a time-consuming multidisciplinary effort with several production-related objectives that may include the minimisation of the transfer cycle duration, work-in-progress and other inventory, set-up times and the amount of fixed investment required.

ISOTAT
Integrated Systems Operation Technologies
& Advanced Training

The ISOTAT monitoring automation strategy offers solutions that accomplish the highest return for automation monitoring investments.

The solutions, while combining automation with information management (KM), is the only system that integrates completely the plan of industrial plant, control center, engineering laboratories and the administrative offices, including training & decision-support, e-monitoring, e-maintenance.

MANUFACTURING & PRODUCTION SYSTEMS DESIGN
Enhancing Manufacturing Competitiveness

Researchers on manufacturing systems engineering have developed a coherent set of methodologies, computer-aided tools, and experimental testbeds to design, analyze and improve manufacturing systems. These include:

¤ Equipment and process selection, product lot sizing and flow design in an integrated approach to rapid modeling, analysis and simulation of manufacturing systems.

¤ Design and optimize asynchronous automatic product assembly systems by means of computerized tools.

¤ Design and evaluate flexible computer-integrated manufacturing cells within computer simulation tools.

¤ Development of distributed control of large intelligent manufacturing systems system architectures and algorithms.

¤ Intelligent process planning and CAD/CAM methodologies; computer-aided tools integration for product design assessment for manufacturability and accessibility.

¤ Systems and product design methodologies for produce manufacturing systems that are more economical to analyze, control, and operate.

¤ New flexible manufacturing cell, stand-alone CNC machines, robots, CMMs, and PLCs including State-of-the-art automated manufacturing equipment.

The industrial and engineering manufacturing design is intended to provide the efficiency, reliability and optimization necessary to compete successfully in the manufacturing environment. These inventory include advanced training systems on manufacturing processes and machines and their control, knowledge of advanced manufacturing systems design and analysis involving modern manufacturing technology.

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