AL-FATEH ENGINEERING WORKS  prefers and opt Smart manufacturing system. Smart manufacturing which makes manufacturing process efficient, sustainable, productive quality control. Includes several technologies to integrate many domains production planning and estimation, purchase, marketing, sales etc. It can be defined as fully integrated collaborative manufacturing system.

 

Smart manufacturing is a cross-pollination of advanced technologies, the industrial internet of things, and analytics embedded into traditional automation systems with the goal of increased factory automation, better process optimization, and higher cost savings. It enables systems that are more intuitive and less reliant on human intervention. A closed-loop simulation Environment connects the manufacturing Processes to help automakers drive predictive insights, increase uptime, and improve output efficiency. Automakers can also monitor equipment performance using real-time visibility to take corrective actions on the shop floor, optimize production and gain energy efficiencies onsite or remotely. Technology advancements are redefining transportation from traditional mechanics to complex sustainable, entertaining, and connected mobility enabled by electronics and software. Smart manufacturing solutions combine technologies and automation to increase factory efficiencies and profitability. They create an intelligent production environment through data analytics, connectivity, and integrated simulations that address situations in real-time to ensure that output targets are achieved. Automakers and suppliers can modernize legacy equipment faster with rapid factory automation, make better real-time decisions with intelligent operations excellence, and achieve cost Savings and flexibility with the virtual development of manufacturing

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Smart manufacturing is a manufacturing process with computer software integrated manufacturing process is controlled by various software systems manufacturing process flows through planning and estimation , purchase, sales ( Supply chain management production tooling assembling fabrication etc. Smart manufacturing is connected to supply chain, cloud computing, big data production planning and estimation tooling quality assurance, 3d printers CAD.

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 Supply chain management

 

Supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management (ensuring the production of high-quality products at high speed with good flexibility and low production cost), logistics and marketing channels so that the raw materials can be converted into a finished product and delivered to the end customer. A more narrow definition of the supply chain management is the “design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronising supply with demand and measuring performance globally”. This can include the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, finished goods, and end to end order fulfilment from the point of origin to the point of consumption. Interconnected, interrelated or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses combine in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain.Supply chain management strives for an integrated, multidisciplinary, multimethod approach. Marketing channels play an important role in supply-chain management. Current[when?] research in supplychain management is concerned with topics related to sustainability, volatility, and risk management, among others. An important concept discussed in SCM is supply chain resilience. Some suggest that the “people dimension” of SCM, ethical issues, internal integration, transparency/visibility, and human capital/talent management are topics that have, so far, been under represented on the research agenda. SCM is the broad range of activities required to plan, control and execute a product’s flow from materials to production to distribution in the most economical way possible. SCM encompasses the integrated planning and execution of processes required to optimize the flow of materials, information and capital in functions that broadly include demand planning, sourcing, production, inventory management and logistics—or storage and transportation. Although it has the same goals as supply chain engineering, supply chain management is focused on a more traditional management and business based approach, whereas supply chain engineering is focused on a mathematical model based one.

 Production planning and estimation

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Production planning is the act of developing a guide for the design and production of a given product or service. Production planning helps organizations make the production process as efficient as possible. Production planning originated to optimize the manufacturing process, and today, its general logic is applied in various forms to design, production and delivery of software as well. Why is production planning important?Production planning creates an efficient process for production according to customer and organizational needs. It optimizes both customer-dependent processes – such as on-time delivery – and customer-independent processes, such as production cycle time. A good production plan minimizes lead time, which is the amount of time that passes between the placing of an order and the completion and delivery of that order. Depending on the company and the type of production planning necessary, the definition of lead time varies slightly Production planning is the future of production. It can help in efficient manufacturing or setting up of a production site by facilitating required needs. A production plan is made periodically for a specific time period, called the planning horizon. It can comprise the following activities: Determination of the required product mix and factory load to satisfy customers needs. Matching the required level of production to the existing resources. Scheduling and choosing the actual work to be started in the manufacturing facility” Setting up and delivering production orders to production facilities. In order to develop production plans, the production planner or production planning department needs to work closely together with the marketing department and sales department. They can provide sales forecasts, or a listing of customer orders.” The “work is usually selected from a variety of product types which may require different resources and serve different customers. Therefore, the selection must optimize customer-independent performance measures such as cycle time and customer-dependent performance measures such as on-time delivery.” A critical factor in production planning is “the accurate estimation of the productive capacity of available resources, yet this is one of the most difficult tasks to perform well”. Production planning should always take “into account material availability, resource availability and knowledge of future demand”.

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CAD

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Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. Designs made through CAD software are helpful in protecting products and inventions when used in patent applications. CAD output is often in the form of electronic files for print, machining, or other manufacturing operations. The terms computer-aided drafting (CAD) and computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) are also used.  

CAD software for mechanical design uses either vector-based graphics to depict the objects of traditional drafting, or may also produce raster graphics showing the overall appearance of designed objects. However, it involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, the output of CAD must convey information, such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions. CAD may be used to design curves and figures in twodimensional (2D) space; or curves, surfaces, and solids in threedimensional (3D) space. CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in many applications, including automotive, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries, industrial and architectural design (building information modeling), prosthetics, and many more. CAD is also widely used to produce computer animation for special effects in movies, advertising and technical manuals, often called DCC digital content creation. The modern ubiquity and power of computers means that even perfume bottles and shampoo dispensers are designed using techniques unheard of by engineers of the 1960s. Because of its enormous economic importance, CAD has been a major driving force for research in computational geometry, computer graphics (both hardware and software), and discrete differential geometry. The design of geometric models for object shapes, in particular, is occasionally called computer-aided geometric design (CAGD).

 

3d Printers

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3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a threedimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer control,with material being added together (such as plastics, liquids or powder grains being fused), typically layer by layer. Additive manufacturing or 3D printing has rapidly gained importance in the field of engineering due to its many benefits. Some of these benefits include enabling faster prototyping, reducing manufacturing costs, increasing product customization, and improving product quality. Furthermore, the capabilities of 3D printing have extended beyond traditional manufacturing, with applications in renewable energy systems. 3D printing technology can be used to produce battery energy storage systems, which are essential for sustainable energy generation and distribution. Another benefit of 3D printing is the technology’s ability to produce complex geometries with high precision and accuracy. This is particularly relevant in the field of microwave engineering, where 3D printing can be used to produce components with unique properties that are difficult to achieve using traditional manufacturing methods. 3D printable models may be created with a computer-aided design (CAD) package, via a 3D scanner, or by a plain digital camera and photogrammetry software. 3D printed models created with CAD result in relatively fewer errors than other methods. Errors in 3D printable models can be identified and corrected before printing. The manual modeling process of preparing geometric data for 3D computer graphics is similar to plastic arts such as sculpting. 3D scanning is a process of collecting digital data on the shape and appearance of a real object, creating a digital model based on it. CAD models can be saved in the stereolithography file format (STL), a de facto CAD file format for additive manufacturing that stores data based on triangulations of the surface of CAD models. STL is not tailored for additive manufacturing because it generates large file sizes of topology optimized parts and lattice structures due to the large number of surfaces involved. A newer CAD file format, the Additive Manufacturing File format (AMF) was introduced in 2011 to solve this problem. It stores information using curved triangulations. 6 CAD Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. Designs made through CAD software are helpful in protecting products and inventions when used in patent applications. CAD output is often in the form of electronic files for print, machining, or other manufacturing operations. The terms computer-aided drafting (CAD) and computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) are also used