Introduction to Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing engineering is based on core industrial engineering and mechanical engineering skills,
which combine key elements from mechatronics, commerce, economics and business management. The
field also works with the integration of various products and quality products (with optimum
expenditure) by applying the principles of physics and the results of studies of construction systems,
such as:

Craft

Put out system

British factory system

American system of manufacturing

Soviet ctivism in manufacturing

Mass production

computer Integrated Manufacturing

Computer Aided Technologies in Manufacturing

Just in time building

lean manufacturing

Flexible construction

mass customization

Agile manufacturing

Rapid construction

prefabrication

Ownership

Fabrication

Publication

A set of six-axis robots used for welding.

Manufacturing engineers develop and create physical artifacts, production processes and technology. It
is a very wide field which includes design and development of products. Manufacturing engineering is
considered a sub-unit of industrial engineering / systems engineering and has a very strong overlap with
mechanical engineering. The success or failure of manufacturing engineers directly affects the
advancement of technology and the spread of innovation. This field of manufacturing engineering
emerged from the tool and die discipline in the early 20th century. This greatly expanded since the
1960s, when industrialized countries started factories with:

1. Numerical control machine tool and automated system of production.

2. Advanced statistical methods of quality control: These factories were led by American electrical
engineer William Edwards Deming, who was initially ignored by his home country. Similar methods of
quality control later transformed Japanese factories into world leaders in cost-effectiveness and
production quality.

3. Industrial robots on the factory floor, introduced in the late 1970s: These computer-controlled
welding arms and grippers could perform simple tasks like quickly and flawlessly attaching a car door 24
hours a day . This cut costs and improved production speed.