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Semester 5 & 6

Industrial Management Field

GI 3.5 Design – 3 credits – Module Total : 92 hours

General objectives

  • Learn the approach, tools and design processes for a product.
  • Apply this approach and implement these tools to the design of a product  or a machine.

Prerequisites and links to other modules
- Know how to use of a 3D modeller, implementation plan and assembly (CF tools 11 and 12).

- Knowing the foundations of its design and technical communication (basic 3D design, dimensioning, drafting  and assembly (CF tools 11 and 12).

Chapter 1: project management 

       
Objectives
      
- Discover the principles of project management.      
- Be introduced to using management type software "MS Project".

Contents    
- Course "The role of project manager".
- TD for implementation on MS Project (carving up into tasks, positioning of milestones,  resource assignments, organisation with a view to meeting deadlines, project budget, monitoring progress).

Chapter 2 : value analysis

        
Objectives
       
- Learn the NF standard and its area of application.   
- Learn how to define the client's need using a valued Functional Specification.

Contents

- Approach in its entirety.
- Definition of the client, client’s  requirement.

- Definition of the product.
- Functional analysis, functional specification, Matrix development, Matrix costs  / Value

Chapter 3: product design

    
Objectives

- Learn a product's life stages.
- Learn the approach of designing a product.
- Learn the constraints to switch from a virtual product to a real economically viable product.

Contents

- Life cycle of a product.
- Drafting of a Specification (see AV).
- The key stages of product development.

- Eco-design concepts.
- Industrial property.
- Industrial design.
- Relationship product / processes / materials.
- APTE analysis methods, carving up the project, design rules, CAO strategy.
- Quantification and economic study.

- Monitoring plan and Certifications.

- Concepts of study contracts.
- Prototypes and risk analysis.

Chapter 4 : Technology and transmission of power 

 
Objectives
      
 - Find out about the different technologies available.
 - Be able to choose a solution for transmitting power wisely.

Contents
 - Catalogue actuators (hydraulic motors, screw jacks, etc.)        
 - Catalogue transmitters (gears, chains, straps, universal joints, etc.)       
 - A guide to practical choices and rules for sizing jobs.

Chapter 5 : CAO / FAO

  
Objectives
        
- Professional mastery of CAO (mastering the rules for good design CAO, application on Calia , pro-eng software.

- Be initiated in FAO (use of tools for the design-manufacture chain).

Contents

- Design methodology.
- Quickly master a new software (CATIA, Pro-Engineer, etc.)
- Find out the basics about FAO (tracking, post processing...

Chapter 6 : Product design project (Design/pre-industrialisation phase)

ObjectivesAcquire, by practice, the approach for designing a product (product with a technical, machine or machine elements nature).
Apply, by developing technical functions, the knowledge and skills acquired in the fields concerned.

Contents - Product definition and schedule.

- Establishment of the functional specifications.
- Analysis of the existing and technological exploration.
- Proposal, evaluation and selection of technological solutions (including costs).
- Size of actuators and transmission elements, choosing the sensors.
- Establish a final pre-study file (CDCF *, research and choice of solutions, schedule, technical notes) for the product design in 13.6. The file integrates the cdcf, the search for solutions, the choice of the solution the technical file, the file of calculation notes. 

Industrial Management Field

GI 3.6 Industrialisation – 3 credits – Module Total : 92 hours

Objectives

  • Discover manufacturing and assembly constraints.
  • Learn and recognise processes for obtaining parts.
  • Learn and recognise recommendations for use in the context of a production.

Prerequisites and links to other modules : Module GI 3.5 (project management, analysis of the value, mastering the rules of good practice of the CAO).

Chapter 1 : method tools

Objective

- Understanding the methodology for the implementation of an economically viable production. (from design to finished product).
- Learn how to organise putting into production.


Contents
- The processes for obtaining parts : machining by removing chips, electro-erosion, foundry (sand moulding, shell, under-pressure), stamping, mechanic-welding, cutting (laser, water jet, oxy cutting), injection and extrusion.
- Situation, means and production constraints.
- The method tools associated with the processes.

1. Ranges
Presentation of the approach and documents (Summary of manufacture, ranges, etc.) - Practical application to an example.
2. Industrialisation        
Presentation of the industrialisation approach - Practical application to an example.        
3. Assessment and economic study        
Presentation of the calculation the treatment of a case approach (calculation of cost and economic profitability) - Practical application to an example.  
4. Control-Methodology        
Presentation of the GPS standard and means of metrology - Practical application to an example.        
5. Workstation        
Presentation of the principles of ergonomics and the methods for calculating time - Practical application to an example.        
6. Manufacturing Technique        
Presentation of a production line, organising stations, flow concepts, paces and productivity.
Putting in place, completing operations according to processes.

Chapter 2 : product design project (industrialisation phase)

 
Objective
    
- Acquire, by practice, the approach of the industrialising a product (product with a technical, machine or machine elements nature).      
- Apply, by developing technical functions, the knowledge and skills acquired in the fields concerned.    

Contents
- Resumption of the design made in 1 3.5.
- Product definition and schedule.

- Technical design of the function, by integrating the manufacturing means.

- Taken into account the environment, ergonomics, safety.

- Set and sub assembly plans with their classifications.
- Plans with side details and tolerances with the chains of dimensions.
- Electrical file comprising grafcet, timing chart and principle diagram.

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