ENES 371 Product Engineering and Manufacturing
Fall 1996
Instructor: |
Guangming Zhang |
09/04 | Wed. | Course objectives, B&D annual report, B&D history, team application form |
09/06 | Fri. | Student team Organization; the First Team Meeting and Vedio Tape: Subarctic Survival Situation |
09/09 | Mon. | Development Teams(Lecture Notes) and assignment of the first team project: Manufactureing Technology Study |
09/11 | Wed. | Introduction of the corded drywall screwgun - Model 2125 |
09/13 | Fri. | Take product apart and team meeting for developing the test procedure |
09/16 | Mon. | Identify product subsystems, interfaces, abd test the product |
09/18 | Wed. | Lecture on time to market, incremental innovation (Smith & Reinertsen) |
09/20 | Fri. | Benchmarking and team meetings |
09/23 | Mon. | Product specifications and visit to on-campus manufacturing facility |
09/25 | Wed. |
B&D Lecture 1:, Introducing New Product to Market, Mr. Clay
Furtaw First Report Due Date: Evaluation and Comparsion of Drywall Screwguns |
09/27 | Fri. | Benchmarking; Team meetings |
10/02 | Wed. |
B&D Lecture 2Customer Surveys of the Product Attributes Mr. Willam Saverwein |
10/04 | Fri. |
Team A, Class Presentation -Injection Moulding Team B, Class Presnetation - Bearing Manufacturing |
10/07 | Mon. | Assign the redesign project to the six teams |
10/09 |
Wed. |
B&D Lecture 3: Technical Challenges with the product |
10/11 |
Fir. |
Team C, Class Presentation: Manufacturing of Shafts and
Gears |
10/14 | Mon. | Tolerances in Manufacturing and Assembly(1)< |
10/16 |
Wed. |
B&D Lecture 4:, Product Architecture |
10/18 |
Fir. |
Team E, Class Presentation - Rapid Prototyping |
10/21 | Mon. | Tolerances in Manufacturing and Assembly (II) |
10/23 | Wed. | Probability and Engineering Statistics: Population and Samples, Mean, variance and Standard Deviation |
10/25 | Fri. | Visit Easton Plant of B&D |
10/28 |
Mon. |
Probability and Engineering Statistical: Representative
Distributions, Central Limit Theorem, |
10/30 | Wed. | B&D Lecture 5: A Product Profit Model, Mr. Greg Moores |
11/01 | Fri. | Team meeting on the redesign project and meetings with the instructor |
11/04 | Mon. | Guest Lecture: Total Quality Management, Dr. George Dieter |
11/06 | Wed. | Statistical Process Control Dr. George Dieter |
11/08 | Fri. | Mid-Term Examination |
11/11 | Mon. | Statistical Process Control: Control Charts |
11/13 |
Wed. |
B&D Lecture 6: Role of the Suppliers in product Development |
11/15 | Fri. | Team presentations on the redesign prohects |
11/18 | Mon. | Statistical Process Control: Control Charts |
11/20 | Wed. | Three Quality Management Systems: ISO 9000, Deming's 14 Points and Baldrige Award |
11/22 | Fri. | Team repsentation on the redesign projects and rapid prototyping training |
11/25 | Mon. | Team meetings with the instructor |
11/27 | Wed. | Team meeting on the redesgin peojects |
11/29 | Fir. | Thanksgiving Holiday |
12/2 | Mon. | Cost of money and environmental issues |
12/04 | Wed. | Final design Presentations (I) |
12/06 |
Fri. |
9:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m.- Final Design Presentations. |
12/09 | Mon. | Review for the final Examination |
12/11 | Wed. | Last Day of Class and the final report on the redesign project due |
12/16 | Fri. | Final Examination 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Imprtant Date:
1. | First Day of Class: | Tuesday, September 3, 1996 |
2. | Last Day of Schedule Adjustment: | Monday, September 16, 1996 |
3. | Last Day of Dropping with "W": | Monday, November 11, 1996 |
4. | Final Examination: | Friday, December 13, 1996 |