MEC 431 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Occupational Outlook Handbook, Stereolithography, Sintering

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: MEC 431
• Professor: N/ A

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Mec 431 w 4: lean and responsive factory of the future must have: Sustained product quality: this will require the engineers to be adept in computer based, automated material handling and supply chains, flexible and robust manufacturing systems, about (cid:888)(cid:888)% of engineers will work in manufacturing or related ref. Us occupational outlook handbook 2010-11 technology (cad/cam, simulation, networking, managing) industries. 15: r/p is a relative (cid:498)new(cid:499) technology for quickly creating (cid:885)d products, r/p is also know by many other names, dependent on the type of directly from cad files. process used, such as: Rapid prototyping read textbook 4th ed: 33 & 42. 6 5th ed: 32 &40. 6. Unless otherwise noted, references in these slides come from the course textbook: m p groover, fundamentals of modern manufacturing 5/e, 16: development of r/p has been led by two important challenges facing industry, substantial reduction of product development times, improvement of the flexibility for manufacturing, especially the move towards more customized, smaller batch sizes.