Programme Outlines and Overviews

Production preparation and industrialization 7.5 credits

Course content

This course provides an opportunity to learn hands on about working procedures, tools and methods used in design, production preparation and industrialization in order to ensure, assess and improve producibility from a product design perspective. Producibility here includes the fabrication of components of a product as well as the assembly of said components into the final product. The course includes the following elements: The course includes the following elements: - Analysis of information flows between product development and production development. - Company visits with a look on the companies’ workflow, design process and cross-functional team meeting structure. - Tooling, simulation of tooling process, design guidelines - FMEA - DFA, manual, semi-auto and automatic assembly - Prototyping using a chosen manufacturing technique. Company visits to learn various manufacturing techniques. - Labs to design assembly equipment - Industry 4.0 concepts, design guidelines for digital industrialization

Entry requirements

The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor’s degree (i.e the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 90 credits in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management, Civil Engineering (with relevant courses in construction), or equivalent. The bachelor’s degree should comprise a minimum of 15 credits in mathematics and 7.5 credits in CAD, or equivalent. Proof of English proficiency is required.

Level: Second cycle

Course/Ladok-code: TPBR23

School: School of Engineering