IE551 Course Web Page

Office: 222 Leonhard Building

Phone: 814-863-1001

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The goal of this course is to provide students with a background in manufacturing systems control. The focus of the course is on discrete control of manufacturing systems. Students in the course get to develop, code, and implement a fully automated CIM system at The Pennsylvania State University's Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (I&ME) Department new CIMLAB (Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME)). The activities of this course , Spring 2001, focus on finalizing the specifications for the new Lab, defining new products, and developing a simulation-based control system for n manufacturing processing machines, a material storage system, and whatever pieces of material handling equipment will be available in the Lab. The control systems will be tested using “simulators”, which are identical to the control panels of the actual equipment, and then implemented onto the physical CNC machines in the lab. It is expected that the full automatic implementation of the control system would be accomplished in late Summer 2002.

IE551 TOPICS FAME

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The Penn State University

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Revised: January 8, 2002