1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM269 Services
2 hours per week Prerequisite: MM169 Services
Instruction: lectures, tutorials and field excursions
Assessment: examination 70%, assessed work 30%
Content
This subject deals with the services encountered in industrial
and low rise buildings. The following topics are covered:
Air-conditioning basic principles of human comfort
requirements. Equipment type. Integration in buildings.
Electrical services principles of illumination, emergency and
exit lights. Communication systems. Specialty services trade
waste disposal.
Recommended reading
Clifford, E.C. Heating, Ventilliation and Air-Conditioning.
Reston, Va., Reston Publishing, 1984
Pethebridge, K. and Neeson, I. Australian Electrical Wiring
Practice. 4th edn, Sydney, McGraw-Hill, 1992
Stein, B. et al. Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings.
7th edn, Wiley, 1986
MM273 Manufacturing Technology 1
10 credit points 4.5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination, assignments and laboratory
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
Objectives
To ~rovide a general understanding of the role of
manufacturing technology in industry - and how the
selection and application of different technologies relates
to a range of manufacturing requirements.
To develop foundation knowledge of some of the more
commonly encountered manufacturing technologies
Content
Manufacturing technology within the total manufacturing
system, relationships with design and product requirements
Manufacturing processes: Introduction to the broad groups
of processes - casting and forming of metals, powder
metallurgy, manufacture of polymer products, material
removal processes.
Material removal processes: Fundamentals of chip
formation. Comparison of types of machining processes.
Basic calculations in machining. Concept of machinability -
criteria. introduction to tool wear mechanisms and simple
tool life relationship.
Economics of machining: Criteria, mathematical modelling,
data bases
Polymers in manufacturing: Forming and moulding
techniques, applications
Extrusion: Effects of process parameters on product quality
Injection moulding: Effects of process parameters on
product quality
Introduction to manufacturing automation: The impacts of
conventional automation, Numerical Control, Robotics on
the attainment of efficiency and quality through
manufacturing technology
CNC machine tools: Applications, relative merits,
fundamentals of programming
Introduction to engineering dimensional metrology:
Standards, common practices and equipment used in the
measurement of length. Accuracy and uncertainty of
measurement, calibration systems
Measurement of other engineering quantities - Surface
texture, angle, roundness, flatness, etc.
Introduction to optical measurement techniques.
Quality in manufacturing: Concepts of quality, quality
control and quality assurance. Systematic management of
quality: Accreditation to National and International
standards (introductory only)
The use of in-process quality control tools in the attainment
of manufacturing quality.
Other quality control tools
Advanced manufacturing Technologies: Introduction to
advanced and emerging technologies
Manufacturing technology and the environment:
Introduction to environmental impacts and measures being
developed to eliminate/reduce such impacts
Laboratory
Tool life in machining, metrology, CNC, polymers
Recommended reading
Kalpakjian, S., Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. 3rd
edn, Addison-Wesley, 1995
MM276 Computer Aided Design
10 credit points 4 hoursper week Hawthorn
Assessment: tests/exam, tutorials, lab/project work
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
Objectives
To introduce the fundamentals of computer aided
drafting, computer aided design and computer aided
manufacturing.
To provide experience in practical 2D and 3D geometric
modelling with application to computer aided
manufacture.
Content
Computer Aided Design (2D)
Introduction to CAD, hardware and software
Orthogonal projections. Engineering tolerances. Detailed
drawing: sectioning. Intersection of solid objects.
Mechanical engineering conventions, threads, gears, etc.
Symbol libraries. Assembly drawings. Parametric drawings.
Computer Aided Design (3D). Introduction to 3D geometric
modelling. Wireframe modelling, limitations and
applications. Solid modelling, features and limitations,
packages. Constructive solid geometry, boundary
representation. Surface modelling, types modelling.
Parametric design in 3D. Applications of solid modelling.
CAD/CAM