Smart Manufacturing

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Seminars given by the teachers involved in the course, most of them with projects in the field of smart manufacturing: design and simulation of advanced production systems; material flow planning, control and simulation; collaborative robotics; data science applied to quality and digitization of supply chains. Laboratory work to visualize and experiment with smart manufacturing solutions, using the available means (collaborative robot kuka, lerning factory and lab-scale factory 4.0). Analysis and discussion of articles and research work in progress.

Learning Outcomes

Smart manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated manufactuirng, with high levels of adaptability and rapid design changes, based on digital information technology and on highly technically skilled and flexible workforce. The main objective of this curricular unit consist in providing the students with advanced cognitive, technical and communication skills to critically evaluate, analyse, generate and select solutions to design or improve advanced manufacturing systems.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction to smart manufacturing: Identifying global trends that bring significant changes to products and manufacturing processes; reconfigurable production systems; digital twins and smart products: impact on material flow management; convergence between manufacturing skills and data science in the field of smart manufacturing; impact of collaborative robotics on production systems; statistical process control and 6 sigma in the digitalization era; supply chain and digitization.

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristóvão Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Groover, M (2019), Automation, Production systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 5^th Ed. Pearson.

Wolf. R and Lepratti, R. (2021), Smart Digital Manufacturing: A guide for digital transformation with real case studies across industries, Wiley-VCH;

Soroush, M., Baldea, M. and Edgar, T. (2020), Smart manufacturing: Concepts and methods, Elsevier

Artigos diversos propostos pelos docentes no âmbito dos seminários.