Level 6 Graduate Diploma in Engineering (9210-01) - City & Guilds

Outcome 3 Explain the principles of production planning applied to a
given manufacturing system
The learner can:
1. Plan for manufacturing a product from the design and customer perspective.
2. Plan the manufacturing process.
3. Judge relevant economical operations depending on the product requirements, product
planning and scheduling operations.
4. Evaluate the operational planning with a view to reduction of cost and so achieve economy in
manufacturing ensuring:
a cost reduction
b maintain the product functional and aesthetic values
c flexibility in tooling and operations
d maintaining the required tolerances
5. Costing of manufacturing process and product costing.
Outcome 4 Explain the principles of conventional and numerical control
machine tools, the limitation of conventional machine tools
and benefits from numerical control machine tools
The learner can:
1. Explain the constraints of conventional machines and advantages and disadvantages of
numerical control machine tools.
2. Explain Numerical and Computer Numerical Control Machine Tools and their operation.
3. Explain Computer Numerical Control and Direct Numerical Control.
4. Identify hardware used in NC machines and CNC machines.
5. Explain various manufacturing processes and machine tools with CNC.
6. Explain NC and CNC machine accuracy and safety.
Outcome 5 Develop simple programmes for Computer Aided Machining
of components and use computers in manufacturing
The learner can:
1. Design and produce a part program.
2. Use computers in product manufacturing.
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