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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

436-343 Manufacturing Control 1

Credit Points:

7.1

Coordinator:

Dr A. J. R. Smith

Prerequisite/s:

431-102 Computer Engineering 1 and 436-301 Control Systems or equivalents

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

24 hours of lectures and 15 hours of laboratory and tutorial work

Objectives:

On satisfactory completion of this unit students should be able to:

  • understand the structure and characteristics of computer numerical control systems and their servo drives;

  • relate machine tool contouring errors to servo drive characteristics;

  • plan for and write simple part programs using standard NC code.

Content:

Overview: Structure of NC and CNC motion control systems for manufacturing.

Sensors and actuators: characteristics of some common analog and digital sensors and actuators of relevance to production, in particular drives for machine tools and robots.

Signal conditioning: amplification and filtering, design of analog interface circuits using op-amps; design of simple logic circuits.

Numerical control: requirements for NC programming; NC codes according to international standards; NC programming

Assessment:

A two-hour examination; tests, assignments and laboratory reports not exceeding the equivalent of 2500 words each.
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