Course Learning Outcomes
- List required equiment and hardware for a given process flow
- Describe the required integration for a given automated machining cell
- State basic trade-offs in a flow line design problem
- Analyze throughput rate for a given flow line with markovian property
- Design a flow line with available equipment alternatives and required throughput rate
- Analyze the reliability of a flow line using failure rates and properties of machines
- Conduct computational experiments to test the performance of a given flow line
- Statistical analysis of the output of computational experiments
- Apply queueing theory to analyze automated flow line performance
- Use markov chain models to evaluate reliability of an automated flow line