MIME 3240
Chapter – 1
Manufacturing systems
• A collection of integrated equipment and
human resources, whose function is to perform
one or more processing and/or assembly
operations on a starting raw material, part, or
set of parts.
• The integrated equipment are production
machines and tools, material handling and work
positioning devices, human resources and
computer systems.
Examples of Manufacturing Systems
1) Single Station Cells
2) Machine Clusters
3) Manual Assembly Lines
4) Automated Transfer Lines
5) Automated Assembly Systems
6) Cellular Manufacturing
7) Flexible Manufacturing Systems.
Components of Manufacturing
System
• Manufacturing system consists of several
components. They are
(1) Production machines
(2) material handling system
(3) Computer system
(4) Human workers.
Production Machines
In all modern manufacturing systems, most of the
processing or assembly work is accomplished by
machines or with the aid of tools.
In terms of workers participation the production
machines can be classified as
(i) Manually operated
(ii) Semi-automated
(iii) Fully automated.
Manually operated
• Manually operated machines are controlled
or supervised by a human worker.