| | NEWER TRENDS IN MANUFACTURINGPRE-REQUISITE: Should have undergone basic manufacturing system & computer graphics, CAD.
 Faculty: Dr.S.Aravindan
 
 OBJECTIVE:  After completing this course, the students are exposed to advanced manufacturing concepts and will have hands on experience in advanced CAD packages like Uni-Graphics, Pro-Engineer and IDEAS.
 
 1. INTRODUCTION TO VARIOUS ADVANCED MANUFACTURING                  (8)
 Basics of Agile manufacturing - Lean manufacturing - Rapid prototyping - Virtual Reality
 
 2. PRECISION MANUFACTURING                                         (8)
 Basics of Precision Engineering - its concepts and significance - precision engineering in Development of machine tools, Non traditional machining process in micromachining - sterolithography - epitoxy methods - technology - manufacturing of integrated circuits.
 
 3. NANO TECHNOLOGY                                                 (8)
 Basics of Nano engineering- its concepts, significance and applications-molecular and atomic level machining and applications.
 
 4. ADVANCED CAD                                                    (8)
 Advanced CAD systems - Pro/Engineer. IDEAS - concepts of modeling - Basic curve creation - Advanced features for 3D model creation - Extrude, Swept, Blend, Swept Blend features - in Pro/Engineer, Unigrahics and IDEAS software and editing feature available in the software.
 
 5. ADVANCED ASSEMBLY                                               (8)
 Creating assembly - assembly constraints - creating sub - assembly - assembly Modification - assembly relations - creating exploded views.
 
 TEXT BOOKS
 
 1.  Proceedings of the  Seminar on "Significance of Precision Engineering in the Indian Context"Sep'98.
 
 2.  Scrope Kalpakjian, "Manufacturing Process for Engineering Materials" Addison - Wesley     Publishing Company, 1997.
 
 3.  Massood Tabid - Azar, "Micro actuators - electrical. Magnetic, thermal, Optical)   Mechanical,     Chemical and Smart Structures", Khuwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
 
 REFERENCES
 
 1.  Pro/ENGINEER Manual - Modeling - Parametric Technology Corporation, USA
 
 2.  Pro/ENGINEER Manual - assembly - Parametric Technology Corporation, USA
 
 3.  IDEAS Master Series Manual - SDRC, USA
 
 4.  UniGraphics Manual - Modeling and Assembly, EDS, USA.
 
 
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