Topic 4

Introduction

Conventional - design from ground up

machine built from different modules capable of certain operation/process

Can be design-in house / standard purchased from external soruce

Machine modules made up of standard machine elements & customised parts and components

What is it?

reusable engineering - portions of previous designs used as new designs.

Technique :functions designed in modules combined in subsequent designs. Integrates standard workstation to perform tasks.

Manufacturing : assembled by "building blocks" modules

Strategy : General usefulness for whole of module families' design for future products.

Example : Slide Module ,Conveyor Module,Pick and Place, Drill head module

Advantage

Proven design/Fully debugged

Known Specifications

Shorten overall design time (Standard)

Remove design uncertainty

Lower inventory and engineering cost

Faster delivery time, quick time to market

Ease of upgrading,scalable ,similar product available

Disadvantage

Larger Machine Size

Costly

Constraint by workstation specification

Proprietary core technology(unknown to standard manufacturing as we did not do it by ourselves)

General function (does not allow creativity)