1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM605 Design for Manufacture
13 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments, project work and examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Manufacturing
Technology
Content
The subject forms the second part of Design for
Manufacture to prepare students with further knowledge of
the design of tooling, machinery and systems for quality
production.
Tooling design for metalworking economy and batch
quantity, relationship. Tool design for cold and hot forging,
and diecasting.
Quality and reliability concept of quality, cost of quality.
Responsibility for quality. Statistical quality control,
charting by variables and attributes and sampling.
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5 Reliability principles and applications.
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8 Computer aided design CAD Systems, processing and
F techniques. NC programming, kinematics and robotics.
Recommended reading
American Society for Metals, Metals Handbook, vol. 1.
Properties and Selection of Metals, vol. 4, Forming 8th and 9th
edn, Metals Park, Ohio, The Society, 1969, 1978
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Tool and Manufacturing
Engineers Handbook. 4th edn, Dearborn, Mich., Society of
Manufacturing Engineers, 1983-1992
Donaldson, C. et al., Tool Desim. 3rd edn, New York, McGraw-
Hill, 1973
Smith, D.A. (ed.), Die Design Handbook. 3rd edn, Dearborn,
Mich., S.M.E., 1990
Thomas, L.F., The Control of Quality. London, Thames and
Hudson, 1965
Wilson, F.W. and Harvey, P.D., Manufacturing Planning and
Estimating Handbook. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1963
MM606 Manufacturing Technology
15 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
~ssessment: assignments-and tests
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Manufacturing
Technology
Content
Sheetmetal work presses; classification, drive systems and
mechanisms, evaluation of different types, operation,
applications, selection. Press feed mechanisms; types,
advantages and disadvantages, applications. Die cushions.
Bending of sheetmetal; analysis of die types, forces, recoil,
springback, blank development. Deep drawing; planning,
force requirements, variables, effects of clearance, cutting
with shear, stripping force. Materials selection for press
forming; general requirements, mechanical tests, tensile test,
analysis of stress-strain curves and parameters, r and n
values, tests to simulate processes, stretch forming tests,
deep-drawing tests, bending tests, forming-limit diagrams,
applications. Function and terminology for die
components; blanking dies, commercially available die sets,
punches and accessories.
Numerical control; introduction to NC machine tools,
comparison with conventional,, hardware configurations,
software implementation, control systems, machine control
unit, feedback, sensitivity. NC system components;
comparison of actuation systems, electric, hydraulic,
pneumatic. Design considerations for NC machine tools;
design differences between conventional and N C machines,
mechanical design considerations, control system design
considerations. System input/output; types of input media,
symbolic codes, tape input format, communication with
MCU. NC programming; programming methods, computer
assisted NC programming [processors, post; processors],
part programming languages APT. Computer Numerical
Control (CNC), Direct Numerical Control (DNC);
comparison, management implications.
Plastics and rubbers; overview of processes. Melt forming,
rheology, mathematical analysis of pseudoplastic, dilatent,
newtonian flow, time dependant flow, thixotropy, viscosity,
tractional viscosity. Extrusion defects; causes and
prevention. Extrusion die design. Single and multiple screw
extrusion; hardware and product characteristics. Injection
moulding; mould design, basics of the moldflow philosophy,
cooling systems. Thermoforming die design. Elastomers; C
black, other additives, compounding. Compression and
injection moulding.
Recommended reading
Crawford, R.J., Plastics Enginem'ng. 2nd edn, Oxford, Pergamon
Press, 1987
Groover, M.P., Automation, Production Systems and Computer
Integrated Manufacturing. 2nd edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice Hall, 1987
Harris, J.N., Mechanical Working of Metals Theory and Practice.
Oxford, Pergamon, 1983
Kalpakjian, S., Manufacturing Processesfor Enginewing Materials.
2nd edn, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1991
MM607 Manufacturing Technology
15 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments and tests
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Manufacturing
Technology
Content
Mathematical analysis of forming equilibrium analysis of
common working processes, e.g. wire drawing/strip
drawing/extrusion/tube drawing/forging. Redundant work,
friction and lubrication.
Deformation mechanics slip line field applied to forming
problems metal flow.
Polymeric materials blow moulding parison production
including parison programming. Closing, blowing and
ejection. Cooling systems including economic analysis of
specialised cooling. Stretch blowing moulding effects on the
materials and products and production economics in
particular. Injection moulding. Introduction to moldflow.
Rubber compounding and vulcanisation.