Advanced Manufacturing Systems MSc

Compulsory

• Manufacturing Systems, Design and Economics
  This module aims to meet the growing need of manufacturing industry for graduates with very high levels of knowledge and skills in advanced manufacturing processes, design of manufacturing systems and management of production facilities, including the understanding of materials and their properties in relation to production processes, the design of products for automated manufacture, advanced, automated production and assembly systems, and advanced and micro manufacturing and production processes.
• Systems Modelling and Simulation
  This module aims to encourage systematic thinking and acquiring knowledge and skills to model and analyse modern complex systems.
• Robotics and Manufacturing Automation
  This module aims to provide an understanding and critical awareness to designing and controlling modern automated manufacturing systems, and employs a systems approach in doing so. The module provides an exposure to a variety of industrial and factory automation practices and also an understanding in selecting appropriate automation and control methods for the equipment or process at hand.
• Sustainable Design and Manufacture
  This module aims to provide students with methods for analysing sustainability in design, quantifying the quality parameters, calculating and assigning appropriate tolerances, analysing the manufacturing operations for achieving the required quality targets. The emphasis will be on the link between design information and manufacturing operations to produce products and propose operations that reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing.
• Computer Aided Engineering 1
  This module aims to give the students the knowledge to model the entities, points, edges, surfaces and solids for CAE and the skill to create the computer model of a part or assembly using a contemporary CAE software package (CATIA), and to educate the students in the theory and application of Mechanism Synthesis and Analysis and to equip the students with the skill of modelling mechanisms using the MATLAB and Simulink software packages.
• Advanced Measurement Systems and Data Analysis
  This module aims to help students to gain an in-depth knowledge of basic measurement theory, operating principle of modern measurement techniques, capabilities of practical measuring machines and advanced data analysis.
• Dissertation
  The dissertation aims to help students develop their problem solving, communication and project management skills to work independently in consultation with their academic supervisor and carry out in-depth investigation of a suitable topic relevant to the course.

Optional

• Design of Mechatronic Systems
  The main aims of this module are to teach the students how to integrate mechanical, electronic and control functions, to critically analyse and use mechatronic design concepts, to apply multiple discipline expertise in an integrating mechatronic process, and to use a contemporary software to simulate power electronic circuits.
• Project Management
  This module aims to give students a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of the latest advanced techniques and strategies for Project Management, including management tools, management and reporting methods and team building.
• Quality Management and Reliability
  This module aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the principles of modern quality assurance which underpin the discipline and their applications in engineering, manufacturing and enterprise, and to provide a professional-level working knowledge of the advanced techniques of reliability engineering and an ability to apply them to improving the maintenance, the maintainability and the safety of existing and proposed plant in their workplace.
• Logistics and Global Supply Chain Management
  This module aims to introduce and develop the fundamental principles and concepts of supply chain management, to investigate the structuring of global supply chain networks, outsourcing and the co-ordination of network partners, to highlight the importance of the customer service dimension as a means of differentiation and the role of logistics in achieving this, and to identify the contribution and impact on supply chains made by E-commerce and emerging IT applications, especially with regard to time based competition.