Study Guide@lith
 

Linköping Institute of Technology

 
 
Valid for year : 2017
 
TMPS22 Assembly Technology, 6 ECTS credits.
/Monteringsteknik/

For:   DPU   I   Ii   M  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 50
Rec. self-study hours: 110

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Mechanical Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The course deals with assembly from both a technical and an organisational point of view, with emphasis on technical matters in the assembly operations. The goal is to give basic knowledge of production technology related to the assembly situation as well as knowledge about different means and methods used in assembly. The knowledge goals are:
    The student should be able to:
    • - describe how assembly systems can be organized and explain the losses in assembly systems.
    • - describe how material supply to assembly system can be organized.
    • - describe assembly operation types in the assembly process; the function of the assembly operations, methods, tools and equipment which are used (for joining operations only production engineering aspects).
    • - explain the differences between assembly production and part manufacturing (part forming).
    • - describe the consequences of the product design for the assembly system build up and for the assembly
    • - understand the vocabulary which is used in the technical area assembly.
        The proficiency goals are:
          The student should be able to:
          • - to be able to analyze a product from an assembly technology engineering point of view with an DFA-method.
          • - to be able to plan, programme, adjust and run a small robot assembly system for a given product.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic courses in Production Engineering, Machine Elements, Electrical Engineering and Industrial Economics and Management.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
The course is given in one quarter study period. Lectures are given on assembly process operations, including methods, tools and equipment. The lectures also cover the build up of different assembly systems and their production engineering features. A demonstration of a flexible automatic assembly system is given in connection with the lectures. Classes are used for solving a Design for Assembly (DFA) task. The laboratory exercises are performed to give hands-on experience on basic assembly operations, robot assembly, etc

Course contents:
The importance of economy and technology in assembly manufacturing. Production technology and economic prerequisites for automatic as well as manual assembly. Design technical issues related to assembly. Equipment and techniques used for different part operations in assembly. Production philosophy and assembly systems. Industrial robot technology related to flexible automatic assembly. Dissassembly.

Course literature:
Compendium: Assembly Technology
Assignment notes
Laboratory notes


Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
Assignments
3 ECTS
1 ECTS
2 ECTS
 
The written examination covers the whole course. The material presented in the assignments and laboratories tested in the written examination are also examined separately.
    The laboratory tasks examine the student capacity to:
    • - outgoing from, a product description with its function and a description of a robot assembly system for the product, plan the assembly system sequence of operations, programme, debug and make adjustments and finally run the robot assembly system for the product. The programme developed by the student should show the understanding of security aspects as well as understanding of the importance of an easy restart of the system after stoppage in the assembly process.
    • - examine an existing assembly method with respect to weaknesses in the method and in the product design from a production engineering perspective.



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Mats Björkman
Examiner: Luis Ribeiro

Course Syllabus in Swedish

Linköping Institute of Technology

 


Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 12/04/2015