Digitization of Production
| Degree programme | Mechatronics |
| Subject area | Engineering Technology |
| Type of degree | Master full-time |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory optional |
| Course unit code | 024612130501 |
| Teaching units | 60 |
| Year of study | 2025 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Joachim VEDDER, Marco KIRSCHNER |
Fundamental knowledge of manufacturing engineering
This course deals with problems of the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product. There will be discussed the engineering aspects of a product from the descriptions and properties of a product through its development and useful life. The sudents gets to knowe different communication and information systems to manage all of the data. In the second part of the course the students learn different finishing methods and there practical application.
Students acquire knowledge of the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacturing, to service and disposal. They get informations about the engineering aspects of a product from the managing, descriptions, and properties of a product through its development and useful life. Students are able to comprehend that all companies need to manage communications and informations with their customers, their suppliers, their resources within the enterprises and their planning. A second part of the course deels with finishing of workpieces.
Lectures with integrated exercises, independent study, excursions
Project
Not applicable
- Stark, John (2011): Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation. 2. Aufl. London: Springer-Verlag (= Decision Engineering).
- Westkämper, Engelbert; Warnecke, Hans-Jürgen (2010): Einführung in die Fertigungstechnik. 8. Aufl. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag.
- Awiszus, Birgit u.a. (2016): Grundlagen der Fertigungstechnik. 6., aktualisierte. München: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
Face-to-face