ME 4710 - Flexible and Lean Manufacturing Systems

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Technologies and concepts that make manufacturing systems flexible: CAM, Group Technology (GT), Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machining centers, robotics, automated warehousing (AS/RS), vision systems, material transport, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Introduction to lean manufacturing. With laboratory. Credit cannot be received for both (ISE 484 or ISE 4484) and (ME 473 or ME 4710). Generally offered winter. (Formerly ME 473)
Prerequisite(s): Major standing.