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Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


AS20248: 21st century manufacturing

Click here for further information Credits: 5
Click here for further information Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1 at Swindon College
Semester 2 at Swindon College
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites:
Click here for further information Description: Aims:
The aims of this unit are to:
* investigate lean manufacture;
* investigate process improvement techniques;
* use the techniques of value engineering.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the unit students should be able to:
* describe the principles of lean manufacturing;
* describe and apply the principal process improvement techniques;
* design products using value analysis engineering.

Skills:
During this unit students should gain the following skills:
Intellectual
* gathering, processing and analysing technical information (A)
* formulating outcomes (A)
Professional
* making written and verbal presentations (A)
* using design techniques (F,A)
Practical
* developing identification and observational skills to maintain records and contribute to reports (T,A)
* using value engineering techniques (F,A)
Key
* writing reports (A)

Content:
This unit concentrates on:
* elimination of waste, total quality, just in time (JIT) manufacture;
* sustainability, total productive maintenance (TPM), single minute exchange of dies (SMED), production cell arrangement (U shaped layout);
* continuous improvement (Poke yoke, Kaizan, Schonberger's 17 points for world class manufacturing);
* value engineering techniques, function value analysis and function cost analysis, design for manufacture;
* design for manufacture and assembly.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

AS20248 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Learning Partnerships
  • UDAS-HFF04 : FdSc Engineering Systems (Full-time at Swindon College) - Year 2
  • UDAS-HPF04 : FdSc Engineering Systems (Part-time at Swindon College) - Year 3

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