FAYOUM UNIVERSITY 1st Year

Faculty of Engineering MDP114

Mechanical Engineering Department Manufacturing Processes
Assignment # 1

Assigned on: 17.10.2015 Saturday

Due date : 24.10.2015 Saturday

i. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the three basic categories of material removal processes?
2. What distinguishes machining from other manufacturing processes?
3. What are the disadvantages of machining processes?
4. Identify some of the reasons why machining is commercially and technologically
important.
5. Name the most common machining processes.
6. What are the two basic categories of cutting tools in machining? Give two
examples of machining operations that use each of the tooling types.

ii. Choose the correct answer in the following multiple choice

questions (some questions have multiple answers that are correct).
1. Which of the following manufacturing processes are classified as material
removal processes?
(a) casting, (b) drawing, (c) extrusion, (d) forging, (e) grinding, and (f) turning
2. A lathe is used to perform which one of the following manufacturing operations:
(a) broaching, (b)drilling, (c) lapping, (d) milling, or (e) turning
3. With which one of the following geometric forms is the drilling operation most
closely associated:
(a) external cylinder, (b) flat plane, (c) round hole, (d) screw threads, or (e) sphere

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