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*Main System
CAD Software and Database.
*Output Devices
Hard Disk, Printer, and Network.
*Productivity
Automation of the repeated tasks.
*Changeability
Do not need to redo entire drawing.
Able to keep track of the previous design.
*Communication
Easier to communicate with the other teams
(manufacturing, suppliers, marketing).
*Definition: Computer aided design and drafting
(CADD) is a subfield of engineering which deals with
the design and drafting of objects and materials through
the use of specialized software that visualizes designs as
modular 3D computer models.
*Design involves conception and 3D modelling. So using
Computer Aided Design, a designer comes up with ideas
and brings them to reality.
*While drafting is to convert them into 2D drawings to
make it more "technically“.
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What is
Flexible
Manufacturing
System?
Key word:
This concept is credited
FLEXIBLE to David Williamson, a
British engineer during
-
mid 1960s.
Advantages of Disadvantages
FMS of FMS
1) Reduce: 1) Expensive
-set up and queue times -Initial set up cost is high
-time for product
completion
2) Substantial pre-planning
2) Improve:
-Efficiency 3) Requirement of skilled labor
-Product routing
-Product quality
4) Complicated system
3) Produce:
-A variety of items under one roof
-More product more quickly