ME1403 COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYLLABUS B.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI:: CHENNAI 600 025
CURRICULUM 2004
B.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
SEMESTER – VII
ME1403 COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
(Common to Mechanical, Production, Mechatronics and Aeronautical)

OBJECTIVE
This course will enable the student
•To gain knowledge on how computers are integrated at various levels of planning and manufacturing.
•To understand the flexible manufacturing system and to handle the product data and various software used for manufacturing

1. INTRODUCTION 8
The meaning and origin of CIM- the changing manufacturing and management scene - External communication - islands of automation and software-dedicated and open systems-manufacturing automation protocol - product related activities of a company- marketing engineering - production planning - plant operations - physical distribution- business and financial management.

2. GROUP TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS PLANNING10
History of group technology- role of G.T. in CAD/CAM integration - part families - classification and coding - DCLASS and MICLASS and OPITZ coding systems-facility design using G.T. -benefits of G.T. - cellular manufacturing.
Process planning - role of process planning in CAD/CAM integration - approaches to computer aided process planning -variant approach and generative approaches - CAPP and CMPP process planning systems.

3. SHOP FLOOR CONTROL AND INTRODUCTION OF FMS
Shop floor control-phases -factory data collection system -automatic identification methods- Bar code technology-automated data collection system.
FMS-components of FMS - types -FMS workstation -material handling and storage systems- FMS layout -computer control systems-application and benefits.

4. CIM IMPLEMENTATION AND DATA COMMUNICATION 10
CIM and company strategy - system modeling tools -IDEF models - activity cycle diagram - CIM open system architecture (CIMOSA)- manufacturing enterprise wheel-CIM architecture - Product data management-CIM implementation software.
Communication fundamentals- local area networks -topology - LAN implementations - network management and installations.

5. OPEN SYSTEM AND DATABASE FOR CIM 8
Open systems-open system inter connection - manufacturing automations protocol and technical office protocol (MAP /TOP)

Development of databases -database terminology- architecture of database systems-data modeling and data associations -relational data bases - database operators - advantages of data base and relational database.

TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOK
Mikell.P.Groover “Automation, Production Systems and computer integrated manufacturing”, Pearson Education 2001.

REFERENCES
1.Yorem koren, “Computer Integrated Manufacturing system”, McGraw-Hill, 1983.
2.Ranky, Paul G., “Computer Integrated Manufacturing”, Prentice Hall International 1986.
3.David D.Bedworth, Mark R.Hendersan, Phillip M.Wolfe “Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing”, McGraw-Hill Inc.
4.Roger Hanman “Computer Intergrated Manufacturing”, Addison –Wesley, 1997.
Mikell.P.Groover and Emory Zimmers Jr., “CAD/CAM", Prentice hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi-1.1998.
Kant Vajpayee S, “Principles of computer integrated manufacturing”, Prentice Hall India, 2003.
Radhakrishnan P, Subramanyan S.and Raju V., “CAD/CAM/CIM”, 2nd Edition New Age International (P) Ltd, New Delhi. 2000.