BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, Pilani

Pilani Campus
AUGS/ AGSR Division

FIRST SEMESTER 2022-23

COURSE HANDOUT
17/10/2022
In addition to Part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives
further specific details regarding the course.

Course No. : ME F112

Course name : Workshop Practice
Credit : 2 (1 Lecture per week)
Instructor-in-charge : Dr. Divyansh Patel (L1N)
L2N : Dr. T. C. Bera
Practical Instructors: Pronamika Borthakur, Abhishek Barwar, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Sudhanshu
Ranjan Singh, Md. Javed Iqbal, Vandana Vidyadhari, D Satya Omkar

1. Course Description:
Casting; metal forming; Joining Processes; metal cutting machines; e.g., Sand casting, rolling,
extrusion, forging, arc welding, gas welding, lathe, shaper, drilling, milling and grinding;
Engineering metrology and equipment. Overview of plastics processing and additive manufacturing.
Laboratory exercise involving machining, joining and welding etc.
2. Course Objectives:
This course aims at imparting theoretical and practical aspects of the basic techniques and skills
used to manufacture metal and wooden products. This course provides an overview of the basic
manufacturing processes and allied processes used to produce finished products from raw materials.
In addition to theory, demonstration of various basic manufacturing processes like sand casting,
machining, forming, sheet metal working and joining processes using common machine tools and
hand tools will be imparted.
3. Text book
(i) B S Nagendra Parashar and R K Mittal, Elements of Manufacturing Processes, Prentice Hall
of India, 2006, 4th print.
(ii) Sangwan, K. S. et. al, Workshop Practice Manual, BITS Pilani.
4. References book Education, Serope Kalpakjian and Steven R. Schmid, “Manufacturing
Engineering and Technology,” Pearson 4th edition, 2005, New Delhi

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AUGS/ AGSR Division

5. Course Plan (Practical)

Practical Text Book-

Practical Shop Learning Objective
No. Chapter No.
Machining of a cylindrical metal job using a
1 Lathe machine
center lathe
Machining of a cylindrical and cubical
2 Mini CNC machine
acrylic job
Machining of a cylindrical and cubical
3 CNC machining center
metallic job
4 Carpentry To fabricate a wooden pen stand
Determination of dovetail angle, taper angle
5 Metrology
using sine bar, Identify different types of fits
6 Foundary Preparation of green sand mould Workshop
7 Sheet metal Fabrication of a pen-stand using sheet metal Manual
Welding Fabrication of various joints using arc
8
welding and gas welding
9 Smithy Forging and shaping of small component
Demonstration on processing of plastics
10 Injection Moulding
using injection moulding machine
Demonstration on fabrication of plastic
11 3D Printing
component using 3D Printer
Shaper, Planer and Demonstration on machining of a cubical
12
Grinding metal job using shaper, milling and grinding

6. Course Plan (Theory)

Lecture Learning Objectives Topics to be covered Text Book-

No. Chapter No.
1-4 Theory of Metal Mechanism of metal cutting, tool geometry,
cutting/Machining operating conditions, machining time, type of T-4
chips, tool life and machinability.
5 Production of Lathe machine tool, operating conditions,
T-5
cylindrical surfaces various operations on a lathe and MRR.
6 Production of Drilling machine, drill, operating conditions,
T-6
cylindrical holes and boring, reaming, and MRR.

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AUGS/ AGSR Division

allied operations
Lecture Learning Objectives Topics to be covered Text Book-
Chapter No.
7 Production of flat and Shaping machines, operations on shapers,
complex surfaces operating conditions and MRR. Milling machine T-7,8
and operations, operating conditions and MRR.
8 Obtaining surface Abrasive machine, abrasives, grinding, grinding
T-9
finish wheel and grinding machines.
9-11 Production of parts Casting processes, pattern making, moulding
by casting process sand, cores, gating system, solidification, casting T-11
defects, advantages and disadvantages of casting
12 Production of parts Metal forming processes, rolling, extrusion, and
T-12
by forming processes forging processes.
13 Mechanical joining Mechanical joining, arc welding, gas welding,
T-15
processes soldering, brazing and mechanical fastening.

7. Evaluation scheme

Evaluation Duration Weightage Marks Nature of

component (minutes) (%) component
Practical Continuous 50 150 Open book
Comprehensive Part - I 60 15 30 Closed book
Comprehensive Part – II 120 35 120 Closed book

8. Chamber consultation hour: Thursday 5 to 6 PM (6020Q)

9. Notices: All the notices will be displayed on workshop notice board and Nalanda.
10. Make-up policy: One make-up for practical class will be permitted in genuine cases with prior
permission.

Instructor-In-charge

ME F112

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