This course is intended to help students gain experience with 3D Printing and explore additive manufacturing as a way to cut time-to-market. 3D Printing, and other additive manufacturing techniques, are commonly used for the production of rapid prototypes. However, with the rapid decline in cost and increase in quality of 3D Printing technology there is a case to be made for low volume agile, additive manufacturing of both end products and internal manufacturing fixtures. This course will introduce students to new novel 3D Printing processes, teach Design for Additive Manufacturing best practices, and give students hands-on experience in software and hardware for 3D Printing. 

This course introduces students to study of the principles, techniques, and applications of computer numerically controlled machine tools. G and M code programming of industrial machines, tooling systems, and an iintroduction to Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems will be covered. At the completion of the course, the student should be able  to use the appropriate terminology to describe CNC machine tools, explain the basic types of CNC machine tools and the manufacturing operations for which they are best suited, describe the major factors in the development of CNC machines, prepare G and M code programs and documentation for the manufacturing steps required to produce machined parts on CNC turning and machining centers and develop part programs for machining free form surfaces

 This course introduced the fundamentals of machining processes and machine tools to undergraduate manufacturing students. Students will gain knowledge of machining processes and machine tools. Students will gain knowledge to understand secondary finishing processes in addition to primary machining processes.

This STTP focuses on DfAM methods that identify opportunities for increased complexities in design. The aim of the training program is to understand the new found design freedom in Additive Manufacturing and optimizing the existing design using various tools. Faculty, Research scholars, Postgraduate and Graduate students from various institutions and delegates from the industries can register for the program. An understanding of various design methods and computer-aided design are the prerequisites for attending the program.

In this course, Design for Manufacturability, Design for Reliability, Design for Assembly, Design for environment, Design for Maintainability, Design for Serviceability, and Design for Life Cycle cost will be covered. DFX provides systematic approaches for analyzing design from a spectrum of perspectives. The Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) approach produces a considerable reduction in parts, resulting in simple and more reliable design with less assembly and lower manufacturing costs.  Design for Reliability (DFR) enables the designers to gain insight into how and why a proposed design may fail and identifies aspects of design that may need to be improved.  Design for Serviceability (DFS), is the ability to diagnose, remove, replace, replenish, or repair any component or sub-assembly, to original specifications, with relative ease.  In Design for Life-Cycle Cost, the activity-based cost (ABC) is a powerful method for estimating life-cycle design cost to help guide the DFSS team in decision making to achieve cost-efficient Six Sigma design in the presence of market and operations uncertainty.  The objective of Design for Maintainability is to ensure that the design will perform satisfactorily throughout its intended life with a minimum expenditure of budget and effort.  Design for the Environment (DFE) addresses environmental concerns as well as post-production transport, consumption, maintenance, and repair.