1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
3. winter term 2023/2024
4. Management and Production Engineering - First-cycle studies leading to Engineer's degree
5. Concurrent Engineering

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Concurrent Engineering - course description

Aim of the course

Making the students familiar with the idea of concurrent solving selected matters concerning product realisation allowing for group work, internet and available computer systems. Practicing the ability of making decisions in multidisciplinary projects of complex information structure.

Prerequisites

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Production and service management, engineering graphics, PKM, CAD

Scope

Lecture

L1: The concept of concurrent engineering. The aims of concurrent engineering. Designing whole “lifespan” of the product.

L2: Comparing concurrent engineering to traditional (sequence) process of the product realisation.

L3: Main problematic areas of designing in concurrent engineering.

L4: Main differences and their influence on competitiveness of an enterprise.

L5: Outline of designing methodology. Structure of enterprises and the way of management.

L6: Principles for group work organising.

L7: Information systems: CAD/CAM/CIM systems, product data management, data bases. Planning and selected scheduling methods.

L8: CPM and PERT methods. Gantt charts. Project management. Methods and tools supporting work of multidisciplinary groups. Terms and conditions of implementing concurrent engineering in an enterprise.

Project

P 1-3: Modernisation of a selected product according to the given criterion.

P 4: Carrying out of the product decomposition.

P 5-7: Designing the technology route with selecting the machine park and in-house transport.

P 8: New technologies transfer.

P 9: Multidisciplinary working group selection.

P 10-11: Creating the schedule of the undertaking with the use of traditional planning methods and a new method of coupling matrix.

P 12: Developing of optimal production schedule with decisive system.

P 13: Identification of sequence, parallel and concurrent actions.

P14: Warehouse management.  Distribution channels.

P 15: Credit for project

Teaching methods

Lectures with the use of audio-visual aids. During lectures a method of “brainstorming” is used. Group work takes place during project exercises according to the idea of concurrent engineering.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture

The grade is given on the basis of a written test that includes verification of knowledge of basic issues.

Project

The grade determined by the component assessing the skills associated with the implementation of project tasks and the preparation of the report, and the component for the student's "defense" of the project report.

Recommended reading

1. Parsaei H.R., Sullivan W.G., Concurrent Engineering, Chapman & Hali, London, 2001.
2. Steward D., „An overview of thefivepillars ofthe concurrent engineering body of knowledge", Soce News, The Society of Concurrent Engineering, Los Angeles, Spring 2000.
3. Browning T.R., Design Structure Matrix Extensions and Innovations: A Survey and New Opportunities, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2015.
4. Kusiak A. „ Concurrent Engineering”, John Willey&Sons, New York 1993.
5. Steward D.V., The Design Structure System: A Method for Managing the Design of Complex Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 1981

Further reading

1. Kielec R. “Metoda planowania procesów projektowo-konstrukcyjnych z wykorzystaniem sprzężeń zwrotnych”. Rozprawa doktorska. Uniwersytet zielonogórski 2003

Notes

Modified by dr inż. Roman Kielec, prof. UZ (last modification: 13-05-2023 15:03)