Design For Manufacturing

MCEN4000

Week 8
Poster Introduction

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 Assessment 1
Report and Poster Presentation
Task Value % Due
1. Research Assignment consists of: 50 total
• Poster presentation 17 • Week 13
• Manufacturing design report 33 • Week 13
(2nd last week)

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 The aim of your poster is:

to easily communicate your design

conception and the importance of part
design for manufacturing systems.
 Good Poster Design
To help you with the poster design task, there
are a number of good web sites you should look
at, typical websites are listed below. They
illustrate some of the do’s and don’ts of good
poster design.
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/posterpres.html

http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/dept/tips/present/posters.htm

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm

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 Poster Specifications
The size of the poster should be no smaller than A2
Microsoft Publisher
There are also some free download poster design
software that allows you to develop your own style
of poster. One free down- load that you can use is
located at:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.47-3.exe

There are other options you can use.

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 Marking the Posters
Title of poster: Mark

Student Number

Poster Making Key Student Marks

Content sequencing 8
Text supports the graphics 5
Self-explanatory graphics 5
Good use of colour 5
Consistent style used 5
Visual effectiveness 6
Relevance of content 8

Technical content 10

X-factor 8

60
Total mark

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Previous Poster Presentation
Poster Presentation
The poster should demonstrate manufacturing
systems and the DFMA processes.
Examples of the themes may be as listed
below:
• Industrial 4.0
• Quality Control
• Manufacturing Systems
• Environment Issues
• Design
Poster Example
Poster Examples
Manufacturing for Mechatronics
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S2/2013 G Stachowiak
Manufacturing for Mechatronics
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S2/2013 G Stachowiak
Questions?

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