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436-343 Manufacturing Control 1 | |
Credit Points | 7.14 |
Coordinator | Dr A. J. R. Smith |
Prerequisites | 431-102 Computer Engineering 1 and 436-301 Control Systems or equivalents |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of laboratory and tutorial work |
Subject Description | 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. Topics covered include; 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 | One examination not exceeding three-hours; tests, assignments and laboratory reports not exceeding the equivalent of 2500 words each |
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