Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Course title: Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Code: FEIT01Z009

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 2+2+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course goals/Competences: Introduction to integrated manufacturing with views on complete process automation and use of modern IT; providing knowledge and training sufficient for design of automated manufacturing systems by using modern computer-aided methods and tools.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Introduction. Basic terms and definitions. Structure, characteristics, hardware elements, and application of CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) and FMSs (Flexible Manufacturing Systems). Application of robots and AGVs (Automatically Guided Vehicles) in manufacturing. Basics and formal definition of PNs (Petri Nets). Modeling FMSs with PNs. Defect modeling with extended PNs. Discrete-event systems, variables, relations and processes. Real-time PNs for discrete-event control. Planning and control of manufacturing. Supervisory control. Control of automatic storage systems in FMSs. Computer-aided design (CAD). Computer-aided engineering (CAE).

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