Course

Unit 1

Concepts and common tools for digital manufacturing – product design and development life cycle, product design process, design for function, reliability, production, and cost. Conceptual design and CAD, CAE in manufacturing, process planning, CAPP, CNC machines, CNC programming, drivers for digital transformation, production process simulation, PLM systems, and CAE. 

Unit 2

Emerging technologies in industry- direct digital manufacturing- additive manufacturing technologies for on-demand production – 3D printing – laser engineered shaping – reverse engineering. Self-configuration and self-diagnosis methods based on Internet of Things technologies, machine learning and AI for manufacturing processes, reconfigurable manufacturing systems, monitoring and intelligent control of production and logistics/supply chain – smart energy management – virtual, augmented reality and collaborative robots for design, production, and logistics. 

Unit 3

Industry 4.0 components, characteristics, and design principles, building blocks, digitalization, and the networked economy, drivers, enablers, comparison of industry 4.0 factory and today’s factory, trends of industrial big data and predictive analytics for smart business transformation, digital transformation challenges. 

Course Objective

• To impart the knowledge and skills needed to leverage digital technologies effectively in a modern manufacturing environment.
• To familiarize on the emerging technologies for converting conventional manufacturing setup into a smart factory

Course Outcomes

Skills Acquired

Ability to implement digital solutions to the manufacturing environment and convert the existing factories into smart factories.

1. Zude Zhou, Shane (Shengquan) Xie , Dejun Chen, “ Fundamentals of Digital Manufacturing Science”, Springer, 2012. 

1. R. K. Amit, Kulwant S. Pawar, R. P. Sundarraj, Svetan Ratchev, “Advances in Digital Manufacturing systems”, Springer 2023. 

1. Divya Zindani , J. Paulo Davim , Kaushik Kumar, “Digital Manufacturing and Assembly Systems in Industry 4.0”, CRC Press, 2021. 

1. Santosh Rane, Bhaveshkumar N. Pasi ,Subhash K. Mahajan, “Development of Smart Manufacturing System: An Industry 4.0 Perspective”, Book Rivers, 2024. 

1. Alp Ustundag, Emre Cevikcan, “Industry 4.0: Managing the Digital Transformation” Springer, 2018.