Advanced Manufacturing Technology

MECH4012
Module#3
Tutorial#9
Manufacturing Engineering

Course Coordinator: Dr. M AL Haddad

Lecturer Name: Dr. M AL Haddad
Academic Year: 2020-2021

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 MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

42.1 Define manufacturing engineering.

42.2 What are the principal activities in manufacturing engineering?

42.3 Identify some of the details and decisions that are included within the scope of
process planning.

42.4 What is a route sheet?

42.5 What is the difference between a basic process and a secondary process?

42.6 What is a precedence constraint in process planning?

42.7 In the make or buy decision, why is it that purchasing a component from a
vendor may cost more than producing the component internally, even though the
quoted price from the vendor is lower than the internal price?

42.8 Identify some of the important factors that should enter into the make or buy
decision.

42.9 Name three of the general principles and guidelines in design for
manufacturability?

42.10 What is concurrent engineering and what are its important components?

42.11 Identify some of the enabling technologies for concurrent engineering?

Answer. Enabling technologies mentioned in the text are CAD/CAM, electronic mail,
the Internet, and rapid prototyping.

42.12 What is meant by the term design for life cycle?

Multiple Choice Quiz

There is a total of 19 correct answers in the following multiple-choice questions

(some questions have multiple answers that are correct). To attain a perfect score on
the quiz, all correct answers must be given. Each correct answer is worth 1 point.
Each omitted answer or wrong answer reduces the score by 1 point, and each
additional answer beyond the correct number of answers reduces the score by 1
point. Percentage score on the quiz is based on the total number of correct answers.

42.1 The manufacturing engineering department in an organization is best described

as which one of the following: (a) branch of the sales department, (b) concurrent

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 engineers, (c) management, (d) product designers, (e) production supervisors, or (f)
technical staff function?

42.2 Which of the following are the usual responsibilities of the manufacturing
engineering department (four best answers): (a) advising on design for
manufacturability, (b) facilities planning, (c) marketing the product, (d) plant
management, (e) process improvement, (f) process planning, (g) product design, (h)
solving technical problems in the production departments, and (i) supervision of
production workers?

42.3 Which of the following are considered basic processes, as opposed to

secondary processes (four correct answers): (a) annealing, (b) anodizing, (c) drilling,
(d) electroplating, (e) forward hot extrusion to produce aluminum bar stock, (f)
impression die forging, (g) rolling of sheet steel, (h) sand casting, (i) sheet metal
stamping, (j) spot welding, (k) surface grinding of hardened steel, (l) tempering of
martensitic steel, and (m) turning?

42.4 Which of the following would be considered secondary processes, as opposed

to basic processes (four correct answers): (a) annealing, (b) arc welding, (c) drilling,
(d) electroplating, (e) extrusion to produce steel automotive components, (f)
impression die forging, (g) painting, (h) plastic injection molding, (i) rolling of sheet
steel, (j) sand casting, (k) sheet metal stamping, (l) sintering of pressed ceramic
powders, and (m) ultrasonic machining?

42.5 Which of the following are operations to enhance physical properties (three
correct answers): (a) annealing, (b) anodizing, (c) die casting, (d) drilling, (e)
electroplating, (f) rolling of nickel alloys, (g) sheet metal drawing, (h) sintering of
pressed ceramic powders, (i) surface grinding of hardened steel, (j) tempering of
martensitic steel, (k) turning, and (l) ultrasonic cleaning?

42.6 A route sheet is a document whose principal function is which of the following
(one best answer): (a) continuous improvement, (b) design for manufacturability, (c)
provides authorization for material handlers to move the part, (d) quality inspection
procedure, (e) specifies the process plan, or (f) specifies the detailed method for a
given operation?

42.7 In a make-or-buy situation, the decision should always be to purchase the

component if the vendor’s quoted price is less than the in-house estimated cost of
the component: (a) true or (b) false?

42.8 Which one of the following types of computer-aided process planning relies on
parts classification and coding in group technology: (a) generative CAPP, (b)
retrieval CAPP, (c) traditional process planning, or (d) none of the preceding?