Coursecode: wb5180
Coursename: Manufacturing in Aerospace Industry

DUT creditpoints: 2
ECTS creditpoints: 3
Subfaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology
Lecturer(s): Buiting-Csikós, ir. Cs., Luttervelt, ir. C.A. van

Tel.: 015-27 83300
Catalog data:
Casting, Forming, Cutting, Nontraditional machining, Quality assurance, Machine-tools & Automation, Process planning, Cost calculation, Design for Manufacturing.

Courseyear: LR1
Semester: 0/4/0/0
Hours p/w: 4
Other hours: 0
Assessment: Written
Assessm.period(s): 2, 5
(see academic calendar)
Prerequisites:  
Follow up:  
Detailed description of topics:
  • Introduction: survey of manufacturing processes, economics, environmental aspects.
  • Casting: mold making, lost and permanent molds, design aspects, process selection. Powder Metallurgy.
  • Forming: manufacturing properties of materials, massive deformation (rolling, forging, extrusion, drawing), dies/tools & machines.
  • Cutting: fundamentals, tools & tool materials, processes (turning, hole making, milling, grinding, finishing).
  • Nontraditional machining: chemical, electrochemical and electrical discharge machining, high energy beam processing. Material incress techniques.
  • Quality: metrology, statistical methods, quality assurance.
  • Machine-tools, mechanization and flexible automation, numerical control.
  • Process planning: macro/micro process planning, fixturing, process selection and sequencing.
  • Cost calculation.
  • Design for Manufacturing.
Course material:
  • H.J.J. Kals, C.A. van Luttervelt, K.A. Moulijn, Industriële produktie (Industrial Production), 1996, Middelburg, De Vey Mestdagh, ISBN 90 6376 0582.
References from literature:
  • Kalpakjian, S., Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-53846-6, 1995.
  • Reijers, L.N., De Haas, H.J.L.M., Flexibele Produktie Automatisering (Flexible Production Automation), De Vey Mestdagh, part 1: ISBN 90-6376-037x, 1991, part 2: ISBN 90-6376-0329, 1990, part 3: ISBN 90-6376-0264, 1989.
Final terms:
This course, focussed on manufacturing processes, is given in the first year of the study aerospace engineering.
It gives a wide overview of various manufacturing processes (casting, forming, cutting, non-traditional machining) with their possibilities and limitations. Attention is paid to the engineering of manufacturing processes regarding quality assurance, dies & tools, machine-tools, process planning and cost calculation. The course ends with aspects of design for manufacturing (DFM).
With all this knowledge over process and material parameters a design engineer should be able to make a first, rough decision about his design approach, whether to cast, to form or to cut out of a block. He would be aware of the influence of the material properties, the product shape and batch size on the selection of the manufacturing process.
Parallel to the course students have a practical exercises to experience the theory. There is also a follow up course in the second year that brings more information about manufacturing processes for the aerospace industry (processing sheet metal).
As a goal can be stated that a design engineer would be able to communicate with production engineers in order to obtain designs which can be realised without too high manufacturing costs. Students of production engineering get more, deeper insight in manufacturing and will be able to design the production itself.

Remarks (specific information about assesment, entry requirements, etc.):

There is an additional lecture a few days before the examination where students can ask questions.
Goals:
Knowledge of the various manufacturing processes and the corresponding terminology. Knowledge of process planning and solution of simple process planning problems.
Insight into process and material parameters, constraints to the design. Awareness of the influence of material properties, product shape and batch size on the selection of manufacturing processes. Relation between design and manufacturing.
Computer use:
The course is supported by computer aided learning: there are several computer exercises to learn to solve process planning problems.
Laboratory project(s):
See for laboratory practice wb5180pr.
Design content:
The course provides basic manufacturing knowledge to obtain designs which can be realised without too high manufacturing costs.
Percentage of design: 50%