308806 Study Guide - Investment Casting, Chromite, Die Casting

• School: Curtin University
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: 308806
• Professor: Alokesh Pramanik

Document Summary

Manufacturing engineering: the organization of a factory so that products are fabricated and assembled to the assembled design, having specified tolerances etc, at the required rate, from appropriate materials, at the least cost on the equipment available. Mass production: when production volume gets high, especially in an assembly line. Results in a very high production rate where specialised equipment is used and the entire plant is often designed exclusively to increase production. Turning: process of machining external cylindrical and conical surfaces. Usually performed on a lathe where the workpiece is rotated and a single-point cutting tool is fed longitudinally into the workpiece then travels parallel to the axis of rotation, reducing the diameter by the depth of cut. Milling: basic machining process by which a surface is generated by progressive chip removal. The workpiece is fed into a rotating cutting tool, often a multiple-tooth cutting tool to increase the material removal rate.