PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY NAME: AARTHI V.

B ROLL NO: 12HM01 SUBJECT: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Production Technology is a combination of manufacturing technology

with management science. A production engineer typically has a wide knowledge of engineering practices and is aware of the management challenges related to production. The goal is to accomplish the production process in the smoothest, most-judicious and most-economic way. Production engineering encompasses the application of castings, joining processes, metal cutting & tool design, metrology, machine tools, machining systems, automation, jigs and fixtures, and die and mould design. Production engineering also overlaps substantially with manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering. In industry, once the design is realized, production engineering concepts regarding work-study, ergonomics, operation research, manufacturing management, materials management, production planning, etc., play important roles in efficient production processes. These deal with integrated design and efficient planning of the entire manufacturing system, which is becoming increasingly complex with the emergence of sophisticated production methods and control systems. Production engineer The production engineer possesses a wide set of skills, competences and attitudes based on market and scientific knowledge. These abilities are fundamental for the performance of coordinating and integrating professionals of multidisciplinary teams. The production engineer should be able to:

Dimensionate and integrate resources. Usually required to consider physical, human and financial resources at high efficiency and low cost, yet considering the possibility of continuous further improvement; Make proper use of math and statistics to model production systems during decision making process;

Design, implement and refine products, services, processes and systems taking in consideration constraints and particularities of the related communities;

Forecast

and

analyse

demand.

Select

among

scientific

and

technological appropriate knowledge in order to design, redesign or improve product/service functionality;

Incorporate concepts and quality techniques along all the productive system. Deploy organizational standards for control proceedings and auditing;

Stay up-to-date with technological developments, enabling them to enterprises and society;

Understand the relation between production systems and the environment. This relates to the use of scarce resources, production rejects and sustainability;

Manage and optimize flow (information and production flow).

Work opportunities are available in public and private sector manufacturing organizations engaged in implementation, development and management of new production processes, information and control systems, and computer controlled inspection, assembly and handling..

The Ford Motor company's factory at Willow Run utilised Production Engineering principles to achieve record mass production of the B-24 Liberator military aircraft during World War II. Production engineering is a combination of manufacturing technology with management science. A production engineer typically has a wide knowledge of engineering practices and is aware of the management challenges related to production. The goal is to accomplish the production process in the smoothest, most-judicious and most-economic way. Production engineering encompasses the application of castings, joining processes, metal cutting & tool design, metrology, machine tools, machining systems, automation, jigs and fixtures, and die and mould design. Production engineering also overlaps substantially with manufacturing engineering and industrial engineering. In industry, once the design is realized, production engineering concepts regarding work-study, ergonomics, operation research, manufacturing management, materials management, production planning, etc., play important roles in efficient production processes. These deal with integrated design and efficient planning of the entire manufacturing system, which is becoming increasingly complex with the emergence of sophisticated production methods and control systems. Production engineer The production engineer possesses a wide set of skills, competences and attitudes based on market and scientific knowledge. These abilities are fundamental for the performance of coordinating and integrating professionals of multidisciplinary teams. The production engineer should be able to: Dimmensionate and integrate resources. Usually required to consider physical, human and financial resources at high efficiency and low cost, yet considering the possibility of continuous further improvement; Make proper use of math and statistics to model production systems during decision making process; Design, implement and refine products, services, processes and systems taking in

consideration constraints and particularities of the related communities; Forecast and analyse demand. Select among scientific and technological appropriate knowledge in order to design, redesign or improve product/service functionality; Incorporate concepts and quality techniques along all the productive system. Deploy organizational standards for control proceedings and auditing; Stay up-to-date with technological developments, enabling them to enterprises and society; Understand the relation between production systems and the environment. This relates to the use of scarce resources, production dejects and sustainability; Manage and optimize flow (information and production flow). Work opportunities are available in public and private sector manufacturing organizations engaged in implementation, development and management of new production processes, information and control systems, and computer controlled inspection, assembly and handling.

Integrative Production Technology For High-Wage Countries The Cluster of Excellence Integrative Production Technology for HighWage Countries is an interdisciplinary research project of RWTH Aachen University combined in the Aachen House of Integrative Production. It pursues the long-term goal to increase the competitiveness of German manufacturing technology. The Cluster of Excellence was founded in October 2006 as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Foundation. It was reannounced as a Cluster of Excellence on June 15, 2012. Goals It is the goal to ensure the production in high-wage countries during the changing conditions of the globalization. Based on the Cluster of Excellence, theories are developed that combine economical, ecological, and social aspects for the producing industry with the help of necessary methods and equipment. The aim of the academic researchers is to contribute seminal and sustainable production technologies to help enterprises with the problems of the location. The Cluster of Excellence Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage

Countries is aiming to maintain the competitive ability of German Production Technology. Research areas Companies have to compete in an environment of increasing global competition. It has to be the concern of high-wage countries to evaluate and define the conditions under which domestic businesses can successfully develop and produce corresponding products. In order to meet the challenges, a fundamentally new understanding of product and production interrelations is required. The Cluster of Excellence aims at developing a viable, production-scientific strategy and theory of production including necessary technology approaches. Various issues of individualisation, vistualisation and hybridisation of industrial production, self-optimisation are addressed, which are divided in four Integrative Cluster Domains (ICD). ICD-A: Individualised Production In contradiction to the incompatibility of economies of scale and economies of scope, manufacturing companies in high-wage countries are facing increasing challenges. This challenge corresponds to a resolution of the scale-scopedichotomy. Product production systems have to be adjusted to one another regarding their specific degree of standardisation in order to resolve the dichotomy. An integrated assessment model classifies product productions systems in four quantifiable fields of tension. Based on the model, the current operating point of a production system can be analysed. A configuration logic - derived trom the results of the analysis - provides the means to control a production system's configuration process. ICD-B: Virtual Production Systems The planning of production processes is characterised by unlinked simulations of specific aspects, which are based on standard assumption. The impact of ustream production processes cannot be taken into account. To increase simulation quality, individual simulations have to be linked and combined to a simulationchain. The Virtual Production Systems researches a method to link simulation resources, data sets and access rights to the generated integrative simulation platform. The general concept also contains subsequent analysis of simulation results by methods of visualisation.

ICD-C: Hybrid Production Systems An important part in securing the competitiveness of industrial production is advancing the manufacturing processes as it currently pushes existing boundaries of manufacturing technologies and taps new fields of applications. The issue of Hybridisation of manufacturing technologies is the systematic development and early assessment of possible application. The integration of knowledge of different disciplines of production engineering is crucial to its success. ICD-D: Self-optimising Production Systems Cognitive technologies can enable production systems to adapt selfoptimizingly to variable conditions. The primary objective is to ensure product quality by aligning the considered process chain to the fulfillment of the required product features by designing inter-process control loops. Therefor the production system can dynamically permit deviations of other goals during the production process or compensate deviations by specific reactions and increase it flexibility and competitiveness.