Credits: 3 (2-0-2)
Prerequisites: MCL211 for UG
Description
Life cycle of Mechanical Equipment Design. Requirements of life cycle personnel like customer, management, marketing, manufacturing, transportation, etc. Need to meet constraints of manufacturing. Advantages of designing for manufacturing and assembly to improve product quality, cost and time to the market. Design for Manufacture and Assembly [DFMA] strategies. DFMA application case studies. Product design for manual assembly. Design for high speed automatic and robot assembly. Design for machining. Design for injection moulding, die casting and powder metal processing. Design for sheet metal working. Computer aided DFMA. Architecture of DFMA and its implementation for Mechanical system Design.