ME 4710 - Flexible and Lean Manufacturing Systems

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Flexible manufacturing concepts and tools such as: material transport and automated warehousing (AS/RS); Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC); Design for Assembly; Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T); group technology. Lean concepts and tools such as: 5S; visual management; 7 wastes; one-piece flow; Toyota Production System (TPS); Total Quality Management (TQM); Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED). With laboratory. Credit cannot be received for both ISE 4484 and ME 4710. Offered winter.
Prerequisite(s): Major standing