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Production engineering

About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.


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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the transdisciplinary challenges and opportunities associated with additive manufacturing technologies and explore the unique systems challenges created by the widespread adoption of those technologies, and discuss opportunities and challenges faced by AM users.
Abstract: Objective Additive Manufacturing (AM) has intrigued the minds of many. The artist can create truly unique designs. The production engineer has a completely new way of making parts. The warfighter can repair or replace equipment on the battlefield. Moreover, any curious person can build trinket and toys at home. As such, the systems challenges facing AM users are not restricted to experts from one domain or one discipline, but are challenges faced by all. This chapter serves to review these transdisciplinary challenges and to discuss opportunities associated with (AM) technologies. The chapter also explores the unique systems challenges created by the widespread adoption of those technologies.

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a laboratory model for integrated learning of the Lean Manufacturing concepts based in practices able to reproduce the dynamic production environment, thus speeding the process of training employees of the industrial environment and the learning of future productionengineers.
Abstract: In the current production scenario, with a globalized economic environment, companies increasingly need to become morecompetitive to face up to the global market. This means production systems are constantly changing in the direction of thereplacement of the low productivity equipment, rearranging the plant layout, the redirection of the transport stream from thesupplier to the end customer and adding new models to plan and control production. All these changes aim to improve productquality and to reduce production lead time by eliminating waste, reducing costs and increasing competitive advantage through theprocess flexibility. For these changes to happen effectively is necessary that the current employees and the future productionengineers are inserted and fit in this new reality. Currently, the Lean Manufacturing concepts are applied in an industrialenvironment to optimize production flow eliminating the waste found in the process. However, there is a challenge to put these concepts effectively in the industrial environment and in the university environment. The traditional learning process based onteacher, classroom, non-integrated theoretical and practical concepts, case studies with static production characteristic (controlledvariable) has been shown to be ineffective in the consolidation of these concepts in a dynamic production environment. Inuniversity, this same model applied in the production engineering course and fragmented into different disciplines makes productionengineers not fully prepared for the challenges of the new industrial environment, requiring an adjustment period. This adaptationwill result in low competitiveness of the company in front of global competitors. Thus, this article aims to present a laboratorymodel for integrated learning of the Lean Manufacturing concepts based in practices able to reproduce the dynamic productionenvironment, thus speeding the process of training employees of the industrial environment and the learning of future productionengineers.

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the educational structure followed in India for engineering education is presented, which aims to give a clear idea of standard of this discipline's courses being run in India at different levels of engineering, considering both centrally funded and private institutions.
Abstract: Received: 2 January 2015 Abstract Accepted: 1 February 2015 Present paper deals with the field of Production Engineering specifically its standard of education in India. This discipline of engineering focuses on the capability of an engineer not just as a technician but also as a manager. As a result industry is also favoring the development of this field. This paper reviews the educational structure followed in India for engineering education. It aims to give a clear idea of standard of this discipline’s courses being run in India at different levels of engineering, considering both centrally funded and private institutions. It also covers the necessary simulation tools used to train the students during these courses and inspects over available web-resources related to the subject. In the epilogue it discusses the future prospects for this field’s development as a discipline and concludes with a brief comparison of India’s status from other regions of world. In the end we have made some suggestions to decision-makers based on our findings to improve the existing model.

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the importance of knowing "how to apply" in contrast to understanding the "scientific fundamentals" is developed as a basis for defining technology, and the current attention being given to technology management has significant fundamental implications for engineering and business education.

13 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: This chapter describes how Lund University staff at Lund University, in Sweden, have begun to offer such DfAM courses to industry that use problem-based learning (PBL) as the pedagogical approach to teaching D fAM in a more effective way.
Abstract: Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that, while removing many of the constraints of traditional manufacturing, imposes some new constraints of its own. Because of this, engineers and designers need to be taught a new set of skills in design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) in order to become competent in designing parts that maximize the benefits offered by AM. Around the world, universities and organizations are beginning to offer courses in DfAM to improve the skills of modern engineers and designers. Staff at Lund University, in Sweden, have begun to offer such DfAM courses to industry that use problem-based learning (PBL) as the pedagogical approach to teaching DfAM in a more effective way. This chapter describes how these courses have been implemented, and how they have benefitted from the PBL teaching approach.

13 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20234
202210
202126
202025
201923
201857