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Engineering Manufacturing Facilities

3. Objectives
List the major engineering tasks in organizing a manufacturing operation.
Describe how the manufacturing engineer performs these tasks.
Demonstrate the use of forms such as the operation process chart and the flow process chart.

4. Engineering Manufacturing Facilities
Engineered facilities
Permit efficient production
Manufacturing engineers
Design and develop facilities for approved products
Allow production at a competitive price

5. Selecting and Sequencing Operations
Plant engineering
Deciding needed processes (selecting)
Putting them in order (sequencing)
Manufacturing engineers organize with
Forms
Methods

6. Operations Sheet
Engineers must analyze the product drawings to determine needed operations
Operations sheet includes:
Operation name
Machines needed
Tooling needed

7. Additional Forms A flow process chart allows engineers to:
Study the sequence of operations
Identify the best ways to make a part
Uses industry standard symbols

8. Flow Process Chart Describes the tasks
Provides code numbers for each task
Identifies machines
Lists tooling needed for the task
Does not let you view the whole system

9. Flow Process Chart (Cont.)

10. Operations Process Chart
Shows the whole system for the product
How each part is made
How they are assembled
Where operations and inspections fit in
Used in scheduling production
Allows engineers to analyze the overall manufacturing process

11. Operations Process Chart (Cont.)
Tasks not included:
Transportation
Delay
Storage

12. Designing Tooling Tooling is designed to increase the operation’s:
Speed
Accuracy
Safety

13. Preparing Plant Layout
Resource flow
Manufacturing engineers plan
Machine placement
Material movement
Utility location
Aisles

14. Plant Layout Process layout Custom manufacturing
Intermittent manufacturing

15. Plant Layout (Cont.)
Product layout
Continuous manufacturing

16. Communicating Layouts
Manufacturing engineers must document and communicate their designs
Plant layout drawings
Models

17. Material Handling
Fixed path devices move a product from one fixed point to another
Assembly lines
Conveyors
Pipes
Elevators
Chutes

18. Material Handling (Cont.)
Variable path devices move product in a number of different directions
Forklifts
Overhead cranes
Tractors
Hand trucks
Require an operator

19. Improving Manufacturing Systems
Production lines redesigned and improved
More efficient machines and tooling
Better material-handling devices
Improved material flow
Operations refined

20. Review Question
An efficiently designed manufacturing facility will produce its products at a(n) _____. competitive price

21. Review Question
Who is responsible for the design and development of manufacturing facilities? Manufacturing engineers

22. Review Question
What are the major tasks in organizing a manufacturing operation? Selecting and sequencing operations, designing tooling, preparing plant layout, designing material handling systems, improving manufacturing systems.

23. Review Question
The _____ includes operation name, machine used, and tooling needed to produce a product. operation sheet

24. Review Question
The _____ describes each task, codes each task, identifies machines to be used, and lists tooling for the task. flow process chart

25. Review Question
The _____ shows how each part is made and how they are assembled into a final product. operation process chart

26. Review Question
True or False? Material handling is a term used to describe devices such as jigs, fixtures, patterns, and templates used to make workers faster, more accurate, safer. False

27. Review Question
_____ layouts are used to design a factory around the production of one specific product. A. Process B. Product C. Tooling D. Material

28. Review Question
True or False? Process layouts group machines by the processes they perform. True

29. Review Question
True or False? Variable path devices move a product from one fixed point to another. False

30. Glossary Competitive price Flow process chart Manufacturing engineer
a price at which a product can be produced cheaply enough to sell at a price similar to like products on the market.
Flow process chart
a graphic means of showing all the steps and processes a single part goes through as it is manufactured.
Manufacturing engineer
a professional person who organizes manufacturing operations.

31. Glossary Material handling Operations Operation sheet Process layout
the methods used to move material around a manufacturing plant.
Operations
the processes that shape and assemble a product.
Operation sheet
a form used to record the sequence of operations needed to produce a product.
Process layout
a type of plant layout where machines are grouped by the process they perform.

32. Glossary Product layout Resource flow Tooling
A manufacturing arrangement in which equipment is arranged in the sequence of operations needed to produce the product.
Resource flow
the flow of materials and people inside a plant.
Tooling
devices such as jigs, fixtures, patterns, and templates that help workers make products better and faster. Tooling is designed for three purposes: to increase speed, accuracy, and safety.