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 4484 and ME 4710. Generally offered winter.
Prerequisite(s): Major standing.