MECH3660 Manufacturing Engineering

/ MECH5660 Foundations of Manufacturing Engineering

QUIZ 1 2014
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Part B Manufacturing Automation
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1. What are the stages of the product life-cycle, in the correct order? (0.25 marks)
a. Design, Development, Product Definition, Verification, Production, In Service
Support, Dispose or Recycle
b. Design, Development, Verification, Production, In Service Support, Dispose or
Recycle
c. Product Definition, Design, Verification, Development, Production, In Service
Support, Dispose or Recycle
d. Product Definition, Design, Development, Verification, Production, In
Service Support, Dispose or Recycle
e. Product Definition, Design, Development, Verification, Dispose or Recycle,
Production, Acceptance Testing

2. At which of the following stages in the product life-cycle do design changes impose
the least cost to the manufacturer? (0.25 marks)
a. Dispose or Recycle
b. Development
c. Design
d. Verification
e. Production

3. Where does Control and Automation fit into product development? (0.25 marks)
a. Used to simulate a design
b. Used to manufacture a product
c. Embedded inside the final product
d. a, b and c
e. b and c

4. Testing the functionality of a subVI in a LabVIEW program is an example of what

type of testing? (0.25 marks)
a. Simulation Testing
b. Component Testing
c. Integration Testing
d. System Testing
e. Acceptance Testing

5. What are the five components of a DAQ system, in the correct order? (0.25 marks)
a. Physical Phenomena, ADC, Transducer(s), Data Acquisition Device, Computer
b. Physical Phenomena, Transducer(s), Data Acquisition Device, Computer, ADC
c. Physical Phenomena, Transducer(s), Signal Conditioning, Data Acquisition
Device, Computer
d. Physical Phenomena, Transducer(s), Data Acquisition Device, Signal
Conditioning, Computer
e. Physical Phenomena, Signal Conditioning, Data Acquisition Device, MAX,
Computer

6. Which of the following sensors could be used to measure position? (0.25 marks)
a. Encoder
b. Microphone
c. Thermistor
d. Photodiode
e. Load Cell

7. What type of signal conditioning would be required when measuring temperature

using a thermocouple? (0.25 marks)
a. Isolation
b. Amplification
c. Cold Junction Compensation
d. All of the above
e. b and c

8. Which of the following is the low level driver that sits between the analysis
software and a National Instruments data acquisition device? (0.5 marks)
a. DAQmx
b. Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX)
c. LabVIEW
d. SignalExpress
e. MATLAB

9. Which of the following statements is true about the block diagram below? (0.25
marks)

a. The loop will execute once and the i indicator will show a value of 1
b. The loop will execute 10 times and the i indicator will show a value of 10
c. The loop will execute 10 times and the i indicator will show an array of values
ranging from 1 to 10
d. The loop will execute 10 times and the i indicator will show a value of 9
e. The loop will execute 10 times and the i indicator will show an array of values
ranging from 0 to 9

10. Which of the following assembles Cluster elements by their labels? (0.25 marks)
a. Unbundle by Name
b. Unbundle
c. Bundle by Name
d. Bundle
e. Build Array

Written Solutions
Answer all of the following questions in the space provided
11. Describe the difference between an analogue and digital signal (0.5 marks)
Analogue Signal = Continuous range of values
Digital Signal = Discrete number of possible values

12. Using LabVIEW, you set up a finite buffered acquisition. You set the sample rate
to 5 kHz and the samples to read to 500. How long will the acquisition step take to
run? (0.5 marks)
Time = Samples Sample Rate = 500 5000 = 0.1 seconds (100ms)

13. If you have a 10-bit ADC, how many discrete levels are available for digitising the
input signal? (0.5 marks)

2^10 = 1024

14. You are asked to acquire real-time voltage data from a sensor, and the expected
highest frequency of the signal is 300 Hz.
a. What is the lowest sample rate you can use to avoid aliasing when
sampling? (0.5 marks)
Nyquist Rate = 2 x 300 Hz = 600 Hz

b. If we have a 16-bit ADC, and the range of our ADC is 5V, what is the
voltage resolution of our digitised signal? (0.5 marks)
Voltage Resolution = 10V (2^16) = 0.153mV

15. You are trying to sample a signal with frequency components of interest up to 1
kHz, and noise components up to 5 kHz. The DAQ device you are using has a
maximum sample rate of 4 kHz. How can you ensure you are correctly sampling
your signal and eliminating any aliased noise components? (0.5 marks)
Use a low-pass filter in hardware, before the ADC
With a cut-off frequency at or below 2kHz
16. What will be the output in the indicator i when you run the following LabVIEW
Block Diagram? (0.5 marks)

The output will be an array of 10 values.

Values: {0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18}

17. What are two ways of making decisions in LabVIEW based on the value of
incoming data? (0.5 marks)

Select Function
Case Structure

18. Fill in the blanks: (0.5 marks)

In LabVIEW, ______________ indicators display an entire waveform of data that
overwrites any previously displayed data, while ____________ indicators update
periodically and maintain a history of the data previously stored.
Graph
Chart
(Must be in correct order!)
19. What do you use in LabVIEW to organise your Vis, manage hardware target5sm
and build libraries and executables? (0.5 marks)
Project