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ME 221 / BA 296 Advanced Manufacturing Systems (3)
Two 1.5 hour lectures per week enhanced by factory tours and a semester long "hands-on" project

1.0 BRIEF DESCRIPTION
This is a "survey course" that deals with design, rapid prototyping, and a review of manufacturing processes relevant to today's production of consumer electronics or electro-mechanical devices. It also aims to provide a balanced view for the "Management of Technology".

2.0 EXPANDED DESCRIPTION
The course guides students through a product development cycle. The goal is to embed each fabrication process in its appropriate place in the whole activity of manufacturing in the large. An especially valuable way of dealing with this new approach in the semester- long class has been to place significant emphasis on two activities:

group projects in CAD/CAM, where students design, fabricate and develop both a marketing plan and a ramp-up to manufacturing scenario
factory tours, that support the understanding of integrated manufacturing after which students, again in groups, write up a case study on the company, its business model and future growth.

Specific technologies that are presented in more detail will include:

CAD/CAM and Rapid Prototyping
Semiconductor manufacturing
Computer manufacturing
Manufacturing in small batches
Manufacturing in large batches or continuous processing
Manufacturing issues in bio-technology

The audience that has been kept in mind is a first year graduate class comprised of both engineering and business students, who are interested in a survey of manufacturing processes and their strategic consequences for business and the national economy. The specific course content changes somewhat each year according to the topic chosen for the semester-long CAD/CAM project, and the number of engineers versus business students taking the class. In the last few years this introductory course has also been part of the Management of Technology program. The analytical material is easy to digest without an extensive background in stress analysis, electronics or bio-chemistry. The rationalizations for this level of treatment are that i) we are trying to move beyond the basic science in each field to the strategic issues such as time-to-market, ii) on most campuses like Berkeley's there are several subsequent graduate courses that do go into the detailed engineering issues in each domain, and iii) in the course reader there is a bibliography to these research articles and books for the future specialist.

3.0 LECTURE TOPICS
The following subjects are organized as a "journey along the product development path with emphasis on the fabrication techniques".

The attached Figure is a summary of this approach perhaps using one of today's cell phones or hand held computers as a metaphor for the fabrication techniques needed. Biotechnology has been added because of the substantial future career opportunities in this field of manufacturing.

1: Art, Technology, Science and Business of Manufacturing

2: Quality, Flexibility, Time-to-Market, Cost,

3: Case Studies on Product Prototyping and Factory Tours

4/5: Design, CAD/CAM, Rapid Prototyping,

6/7: Semiconductor Manufacturing,

8/9: Computer Assembly,

10/11: Small Batch Manufacturing by Machining,

12/13: Large Batch Manufacturing by Rolling, Sheet Metal Forming, Plastics,

14/15: Bio-Technology

16: Conclusions

4.0 TEXT BOOK
Manufacturing: Surveys of Products, Prototypes, Processes and Production by Paul Wright...in Press with Prentice Hall.

5.0 COURSE OFFERED/PREREQISITES/LIMITS/INSTRUCTOR
Fall Semester: Prerequisite Undergraduate Manufacturing Course: Section limit is 40

Paul Wright
pwright@robocop.berkeley.edu
http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu
Etcheverry Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-1740
Phone (510) 642-2527; Fax (510) 642-1933