Overview

This unit of study aims to provide you with sufficient knowledge and applicable experience in designing manufacturing processes and tooling for high quality products.

Requisites

Prerequisites
PDE40001 Manufacturing Systems and Design

Rule

Undergraduate
200 credit points

OR

Postgraduate 
Admission into the Master of Professional Engineering

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Appreciate the use of product features to enable efficient design for manufacture (K3, K6, A3)
  • Use applicable formulae for decision making in the design of forging dies (K2, S1, S2)
  • Design progressive dies and moulds for plastic and metal parts (K3, K4, S1, S3, S4, A2, A5, A6, A7)
  • Appreciate the use of industrial robots for efficient manufacturing (K6)
  • Apply Australian Standards to design product quality control processes (K6, K4, S1)
  • Use applicable methodology for product reliability calculations (K2, S2)
  • Use computer aided design for metal and plastic die design (K2, S3, A2, A4, A6, A7)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-sampus
Lecture
4.00  12 weeks  48
On-campus
Class
2.00  8 weeks  16
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
7.16 12 weeks  86
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment 1 Individual  15 - 20%  2,5,7
Assignment 2 Individual  5 - 10% 2,5,7
Assignment 3 Individual  20 - 30%  2,5,7
Presentation Individual  5 - 10% 1,2,3,4,6,7
Design Project Individual/Group 25 - 35% 1,2,3,4,6,7

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all Unit Learning Outcomes to a minimum standard, a student must achieve: 

(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and
(ii) at least 40% in the final assessment.

Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

  • Design for assembly:  Methods of assembly. Feed mechanisms; manual and automated, part transfer, insertion and fastening
  • Die and mould design: Design of dies for metal forming processes: forging dies, cold, warm and hot forging, forging sequence. Design of plastic moulding, heat analysis techniques
  • Design for industrial robots: Robot end effector design. Robot applications: materials handling, palletising, welding, gluing. Robot dynamics: Cartesian and polar configurations, external load, acceleration and forces
  • Design for Assembly: Methods of assembly, part handling, insertion and fastening. Assembly time studies
  • Quality control and reliability: Control charts for variable and attribute data, process capability, Pareto diagrams, acceptance sampling, incoming and final inspection, quality rating. Reliability of systems, modes of failure, mean time to failure
  • Computer laboratory:  Using parametric CAD software for tool/ mould design


Communication 1 - Verbal Communication (GA1)

Communication 2 - Communicating using different media (GA2)

Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy (GA5)

Digital Literacies 2 - Technical literacy (GA6)

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.