Manufacturing Best Practices

1. Manufacturing Best Practices Rod Thompson & Mance Hurley University of Wyoming/Casper College

2. Knowing your Students • Interests • Not all will be 100% committed • Time and machine limitations exist.

3. Brainstorming • Openly generate a group of possible products to be produced within your facility. • Project possible products on the screen • Use Survey Monkey to narrow product possibilities.

4. Types of Manufacturing • Custom manufacture • Intermittent manufacture • Continuous manufacture

5. Selecting a product • Students discuss openly the top (two) products selected • When consensus is made through the discussion as to which product will be produced, your product is selected.

6. Historical Perspectives • In 1798, Eli Whitney successfully began the manufacture of muskets with parts that were fairly exact in size and shape. • Credited with the idea of interchangeability. • Tooling is the fundamental concept for mass production.

7. Tooling • Fixtures: • Designed to hold and establish a relationship between a work piece and a tool. Jigs: perform the same operation plus guide the tool during the machining process.

8. Teams • Research and Development • Characteristics of product and processes • Production • Manage facility and quality standards • Marketing • Promotes, sells, and distributes

9. Research • Drawings • Material lists • Plan of procedure

10. Production • Jigs • Fixtures

11. Marketing • Product demonstrations

12. Fly Fishing Nets • Specific to our surrounding area • Manageable product • Materials are readily available • Primarily custom

13. Our Situation • 7 students • 3 different ideas • All plausible solutions

14. Design Process • Sketches and brainstorming ideas are put to print through the use of SolidWorks using visual assembly

20. Incorporating CNC • Uploading SolidWorks into ArtCam • Producing fixtures on ShopBot CNC

21. ShopBot Capture

22. Shopbot Capture

23. Standards for Technological Literacy • Content for the Study of Technology • The STL standards are 20 very defined standards imbedded in many content areas but the driving force for Technical Education.

24. STL Standard 7 • …influence of technology on history. • Interchangeability of parts • Tooling

25. STL Standard 8 • …attributes of design. • Purposeful • Meets requirements/restraints

26. STL Standard 9 • …understanding of engineering design. • critical thinking • application of technical knowledge • creativity

27. STL Standard 10 • …trouble shooting, R & D, invention and innovation, experimentation in problem solving. • Material composition • Not all problems are technological

28. Standard 11 • …apply the design process • Brainstorming to encourage creative thinking • Evaluating and re-designing • Create models to check for constraints and short comings

29. STL Standard 11 Cont. • Develop and produce a product • Evaluate final solution • Communicate findings • Identify if it meets the intended goal

30. STL Standard 12 • …abilities to use and maintain technological products and systems • Document processes • Troubleshoot

31. STL Standard 13 • …ability to assess the impact of products and systems. • Effect of product on society and environment • Assessment techniques and trend analysis

32. STL Standard 19 • …an understanding of and be able to select and use manufacturing technologies. • Material composition • Interchangeability • Marketing

33. WY. Content Standard 1 • Resources • prepare and analyze personal or business financial information • assess individual skills, evaluate, and adjust their performance accordingly • prioritize and manage time, materials, work space, and resources to set and achieve goals

34. WY. Content Standard 2 • Interpersonal skills • Work with individuals/groups of diverse abilities and backgrounds in a workplace setting • Communicate using a variety of methods in a workplace setting • Assume a leadership role in a group setting to accomplish group goals • Demonstrate and/or teach a learned skill

35. WY. Content Standard 3 • Information • Acquire and evaluate workplace information • Organize and update workplace information • Interpret and communicate workplace information • Use technology to process workplace information

36. WY. Content Standard 4 • Systems • Evaluate the quality and performance of a variety of systems • Suggest modifications to existing systems and develop new or alternative ideas for systems to improve performance

37. WY. Content Standard 5 • Technology • Choose and utilize procedures, tools, or equipment, including computers and related technologies • Demonstrate proper procedure for set-up, operation, and routine maintenance of workplace equipment • Use workplace equipment to solve problems • Apply safe and ethical practices when using workplace technologies

38. WY. Content Standard 6 • Careers • Interpret information from a variety of self-assessments to identify career interests, abilities, personal traits, and work values. • Locate and interpret career information and labor market trends from a variety of sources. • Create, evaluate, and revise career plans • Demonstrate skills to seek, obtain, maintain, and change jobs.