1. Manufacturing Engineering (ME)
Purpose
Responsibilities
Coordination
A variety of approaches
Personnel
Training 1

2. ME: Principles 1 Precision Contamination
Accuracy (stop watch exercise)
Tolerance
Contamination
Standardization and Interchangeability 2

3. ME: Principles 2 Continuity Synchronization Efficiency Flexibility
Redundancy
Synchronization
Efficiency
Flexibility
Experimentation and Testing 3

4. ME: Facility Siting Technical requirements Design Implementation
Transportation
Storage
Legal
Proximity
Technical requirements
Utilities and Access
Design
Implementation 4

5. ME: Quality Assurance Purpose Total quality management
Inspection and sampling
Statistical process control 5

6. ME: Equipment Tools and Machinery Tooling Materials Handling Safety
Testing and Measuring
Other 6

7. ME: Common Types of Tooling
Jigs & fixtures
Patterns & templates
Gages
Other 7

8. ME: Concepts in Tooling
Registration
Accumulation of tolerances
Effects of wear and fatigue
Vectors
Chip removal
Other 8

9. ME: Tooling Purpose Design Installation Evaluation Maintenance
Alternatives 9

10. ME: Materials Handling Engineering
Storage
Transport
Inventory
Safety 10

11. ME: Transport Equipment
Gravity Fed
Hoppers
Tubes and Rails
Pressurized
Pipelines
Motorized
Conveyors
Lifts
AGVs 11

12. ME: Inventory
Parameters
Tracking systems 12

13. ME: Impacts of Manufacturing on Design
Design for Manufacture
Design for Assembly
Rapid Prototyping
Near Net Shape Processing
Other 13

14. ME: Workstation Design
Human Requirements
Physical Needs
Anthropometrics and Limitations
Ergonomics
Worker Safety
Special needs
Social and Psychological Needs 14

15. ME: Maintenance Engineering
Scheduled maintenance
Unscheduled maintenance
Scheduled upgrades
Service contracts 15