SYS-Class discussion

System define;

When asked to explain a system. You have to define the objective. The inputs, processes to
transform and the output.

3.3 System design;

 When designing a system, the objective, purpose must defined and understood so that
system components may be engineered to provide desired functions.
 Once defined, objectives or purposes make possible derivation of measured of effectiveness
indicating how well the system performs.
 Achieving the intended purpose of a human made system and defining its measure of
effectiveness are usually challenging tasks.
 The purposeful action performed must be defined
 System

4. SYSTEM COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL (P.37). –It is a management system that regularly
examine the process it is in charge of in order to make changes that will improve its inputs.

Essential components of feedback control

Systems engineering

o Understand the background …

Object oriented system characteristics

o Object is something that exist

o Attributes u describe info about object
o Behaviour specify what the object can do
o Class encapsulates data and its behaviour
o Method define behaviour of the class
o Message is a process or procedure call from one

Features of OOS- an object-oriented system comes with several features

Encapsulation

o Encapsulation is a process of information hiding.

o It is simply the combination of process and data into a single entity
o Data of an object is hidden from the rest of the system and available only through the
services of the class.
o It allows improvement or modification of methods used by objects without affecting other
parts of a system.

Abstraction is a process of taking or selecting necessary method and attributes to specify the object.
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Relationships of OOS

o All the classes in the system are related

 o The objects do not exist in isolation, they exist in a relationship with others

Inheritance – is a great feature that allows to create sub-class

OO Methodologies steps

o Information modelling the focus is a abstracting the conceptual entities in the problem
domain in terms of objects and attributes.
o State modelling. Concern the behaviour of object and relationship. They are used to
formalize
o Process modelling. Actions of the state models wich contains all required

Design diagrams. (Read more to understand)

o Class diagram
o Inheritance diagram
o Dependency class
o Class structure diagram
o Process diagram
o Physical design….

System thinking
A system thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system’s
constituent part interrelate and how system work overtime and within the context of lager

System thinking uses computer simulation and variety of diagrams and graphs to model and to
predict how the system will behave.

System thinking tool…

Input output diagram. Shows major inputs and outputs of a system

Inputs---transformation process--- outputs

An inputs outputs diagram is constructed to;

o Define and agree the scope of system of interest

o Provide a simple high level picture of the system of interest. All systems operate in an
environment

Manufacturing systems. Is a collection of integrated equipment and human resource, whose

function is to perform one or more processing in assembly operation on a starting raw material?

Component of a manufacturing systems are

o Production machines
o Material handling system
o Computer system to coordinate proceeding
o Human workers to operate and manage the system

Production machines classifications

1. Manually operated machines are controlled by human

2. Semi-automated
 3. Fully automated
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Material handling system

 Loading work units

 Positioning of work units
 Unloading ….

Work transport between stations

1. Fixed routing- work units layaways flow through the same sequence
2. Variable routing. Work units are moved through a variety of different stations sequences

Computer control system

 It communicates instructions to workers

 Download part programs to computer
 Control material handling system
 Schedule production
 Failure diagnosis when malfunctions occur
 Safety monitoring
 Quality control

Human resources

 Manually operated system require. Direct labour workers

 Automated manufacturing system
 Direct labour performs functions such as loading or unloading, changing and sharpening
parts

Also needed are;

 Computer programmers and operators

 NC part programmers
 Maintenance and repair personnel

Types of manufacturing systems

 Types of operations.
 No. of workstations
 Level of automation
 System flexibility.

Enablers of flexibility. Identification of the different work units. Quick changeovers of operating
instructions. Quick changeover of the physical setup.

Steps involve in simulation…

Understand HOOMA procedure
Advanced manufacturing systems