ME 205: Introduction to

Manufacturing Processes

INTRODUCTION

Prof. Dr. S. Engin KILIÇ

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Atılım University

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 OUTLINE

• Importance of Manufacturing
• What is Manufacturing?
• Manufacturing Industries
• Production Quantitiy vs Product Variety
• Materials in Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Processes
• Production Systems

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 Manufacturing is Important!

• Technologically
• Economically
• Historically

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 Manufacturing Is Important
Technologically
Technology can be defined as the application of science
to provide society and its members with those things
that are needed or desired
• Technology provides products that help our society
and its members live better
• What do these products have in common? They are
all manufactured
• Manufacturing is the essential factor that makes
technology possible

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 Manufacturing Is Important Economically
Turkish economy (2003,
Manufacturing is a means treasury statistics):
by which a nation creates
% of
material wealth Sector
GNP
• In Turkey manufacturing Manufacturing 25%
constitutes ~ 25% of GNP
Agriculture, minerals, etc. 14%
• Government is ~5% of
GNP, but it creates no Construction & utilities 7%

wealth Service – retail, 54%

transportation, banking,
communication,
education, and
government

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Economic Role of Manufacturing

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 Manufacturing is Important Historically
Historically, the importance of manufacturing in the
development of civilization is usually underestimated
• Throughout history, human cultures that were better
at making things were more successful
• Making better tools meant better crafts & weapons
- Better crafts allowed the people to live better
- Better weapons allowed them to conquer other
cultures in times of conflict
• To a significant degree, the history of civilization is
the history of humans' ability to make things

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 What is Manufacturing?

Manufacture is derived from two Latin words manus

(hand) and factus (make); the combination means
“made by hand”
• “Made by hand” accurately described the manual
methods used when the English word “manufacture”
was first coined around 1567 A.D.
• Most modern manufacturing is accomplished by
automated and computer‑controlled machinery that is
manually supervised

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Manufacturing is the application of physical and
chemical processes to alter the geometry, properties,
and/or appearance of a given starting material to make
parts or products; manufacturing also includes
assembly of multiple parts to make products
• Manufacturing is almost always carried out as a
sequence of operations

Figure 1.1 (a)

Manufacturing
as a technical
process

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Manufacturing is the transformation of materials into
items of greater value by means of one or more
processing and/or assembly operations
• Manufacturing adds value to the material by
changing its shape or properties, or by combining it
with other materials that have been similarly altered

Figure 1.1 (b)

Manufacturing
as an economic
process

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 PLEASE NOTE

Textbook : Groover, Mikell P., Groover’s Principles of

Modern Manufacturing, Wiley, Global 6th Edition,
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 Manufacturing Industries

Industry consists of enterprises and organizations that

produce or supply goods and services
• Industries can be classified as:
1. Primary industries - those that cultivate and
exploit natural resources, e.g., agriculture, mining
2. Secondary industries - take the outputs of
primary industries and convert them into
consumer and capital goods - manufacturing is
the principal activity
3. Tertiary industries -service sector of the economy

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 Specific Industries in Each
Category

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 Manufacturing Industries - continued
• Most secondary industries are companies that do
manufacturing; others are construction and power
generation
• However, manufacturing includes several industries
whose production technologies are not covered in
this course; e.g., apparel, beverages, chemicals, and
food processing
• For our purposes, manufacturing means production
of hardware, which ranges from nuts and bolts to
digital computers and military weapons, as well as
plastic and ceramic products

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 Manufactured Products

• Final products divide into two major classes:

1. Consumer goods - products purchased directly by
consumers
 Cars, clothes, TVs, tennis rackets
2. Capital goods - those purchased by companies to
produce goods and/or provide services
 Aircraft, computers, communication equipment,
medical apparatus, trucks, machine tools,
construction equipment

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 Inputs for Manufacturing

• Objects (materials)
• Means:
- Direct means (machine tools, power supplies)
- Indirect means (roads, buildings, etc.)
• Labor
• Information (know-how)

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 Fundamental Criteria Determining
Economical Production

• Functional but simple design with an appropriate

aesthetic quality
• A material choice that would yield the best
compromise between physical properties,
appearance, cost, workability, and machinability.
• Proper selection of manufacturing process that would
give no more accuracy or no better surface than
necessary.

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 Production Quantity
The quantity of products Q made by a factory has an
important influence on the way its people, facilities,
and procedures are organized
Annual production quantities can be classified into three
ranges:
Production range Annual Quantity Q
Low production 1 to 100 units
Medium production 100 to 10,000 units
High production 10,000 to millions of units

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 Product Variety

Product variety P refers to different product types

produced in the plant
• Product variety is distinct from production quantity
• Different products have different shapes and sizes;
they are intended for different markets; some have
more parts than others
• The number of different product types made each
year in a factory can be counted
• When the number of product types made in the
factory is high, this indicates high product variety

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• An inverse correlation exists between product variety
P and production quantity Q in factory operations
• If a factory's P is high, then Q is likely to be low; and if
Q is high, then P is likely to be low

Figure 1.2 -
P-Q Relationship

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Production Quantity and Product Variety
Although P is a quantitative parameter, it is much less
exact than Q because details on how much the
designs differ is not captured simply by the number
of different designs
• Soft product variety - small differences between
products, e.g., differences between car models
made on the same production line, in which there is
a high proportion of common parts among models
• Hard product variety - products differ substantially,
and there are few, if any, common parts, e.g., the
difference between a small car and a large truck

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 Manufacturing Capability
A manufacturing plant consists of a set of processes
and systems (and people, of course) designed to
transform a certain limited range of materials into
products of increased value
• The three building blocks ‑ materials, processes, and
systems ‑ are the subject of modern manufacturing
• Manufacturing capability includes:
- Technological processing capability
- Physical product limitations
- Production capacity

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 Technological Processing Capability

The available set of manufacturing processes in the

plant (or company)
• Certain manufacturing processes are suited to certain
materials
- By specializing in certain processes, the plant is
also specializing in certain material types
• Includes not only the physical processes, but also the
expertise of the plant personnel

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 Physical Product Limitations
Given a plant with a certain set of processes, there are
size and weight limitations on the parts or products
that can be made in the plant
• Product size and weight affect:
- Production equipment
- Material handling equipment
• The production and material handling equipment, and
plant size must be planned for products that lie within
a certain size and weight range

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 Production Capacity
The production quantity that can be produced in a given
time period (e.g., month or year)
• Commonly called plant capacity, or production
capacity, it is defined as the maximum rate of
production that a plant can achieve under assumed
operating conditions
- Operating conditions refer to number of shifts per
week, hours per shift, direct labor manning levels
in the plant, and so on
• Usually measured in terms of output units, such as
tons of steel or number of cars produced by the plant

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 Materials in Manufacturing
• Most engineering materials can be classified into
one of three basic categories:
1. Metals
2. Ceramics
3. Polymers
• Their chemistries are different, their mechanical and
physical properties are dissimilar, and these
differences affect the manufacturing processes that
can be used to produce products from them

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• In addition to the three basic categories, there are:
4. Composites ‑ nonhomogeneous mixtures of the
other three basic types rather than a unique
category

Figure 1.3 –
Venn diagram
of three basic
Material types
plus composites

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 Metals
Usually alloys, which are composed of two or more
elements, at least one of which is metallic
• Two basic groups:
1. Ferrous metals - based on iron, comprise  75%
of metal tonnage in the world:
 Steel = iron‑carbon alloy with 0.02 to 2.11% C
 Cast iron = alloy with 2% to 4% C
2. Nonferrous metals - all other metallic elements
and their alloys: aluminum, copper, gold,
magnesium, nickel, silver, tin, titanium, etc.

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 Ceramics
A compound containing metallic (or semi-metallic) and
nonmetallic elements. Typical nonmetallic elements
are oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon
• For processing purposes, ceramics divide into:
1. Crystalline ceramics – includes:
 Traditional ceramics, such as clay (hydrous
aluminum silicates)
 Modern ceramics, such as alumina (Al2O3)
2. Glasses – mostly based on silica (SiO2)

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 Polymers
A compound formed of repeating structural units called
mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very
large molecules
• Three categories:
1. Thermoplastic polymers - can be subjected to
multiple heating and cooling cycles without
altering their molecular structure
2. Thermosetting polymers - molecules chemically
transform (cure) into a rigid structure upon
cooling from a heated plastic condition
3. Elastomers - exhibit significant elastic behavior

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 Composites
A material consisting of two or more phases that are
processed separately and then bonded together to
achieve properties superior to its constituents
• A phase = a homogeneous mass of material, such as
grains of identical unit cell structure in a solid metal
• Usual structure consists of particles or fibers of one
phase mixed in a second phase
• Properties depend on components, physical shapes
of components, and the way they are combined to
form the final material

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 Manufacturing Processes

Two basic types:

1. Processing operations - transform a work material
from one state of completion to a more advanced
state
- Operations that change the geometry,
properties, or appearance of the starting material
2. Assembly operations - join two or more
components in order to create a new entity

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 Processing Operations
Alters a workpart's shape, physical properties, or
appearance in order to add value to the material
• Three categories of processing operations:
1. Shaping operations - alter the geometry of the
starting work material
2. Property‑enhancing operations - improve
physical properties of the material without
changing its shape
3. Surface processing operations - performed to
clean, treat, coat, or deposit material onto the
exterior surface of the work

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 Shaping Processes – Four Categories
1. Solidification processes - starting material is a heated
liquid or semifluid that solidifies to form part geometry
2. Particulate processing - starting material is a powder,
and the powders are formed into desired geometry and
then sintered to harden
3. Deformation processes - starting material is a ductile
solid (commonly metal) that is deformed
4. Material removal processes - starting material is a solid
(ductile or brittle), from which material is removed so
resulting part has desired geometry
5. Additive manufacturing processes- building parts layer
by layer by depositing mataerial according to digital 3D
design data

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 Solidification Processes
• Starting material is heated sufficiently to transform it
into a liquid or highly plastic state
• Examples: Casting for metals, molding for plastics

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 Particulate Processing
• Starting materials are powders of metals or ceramics
• Usually involves pressing and sintering, in which
powders are first squeezed in a die cavity and then
heated to bond the individual particles

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 Deformation Processes
Starting workpart is shaped by application of forces that
exceed the yield strength of the material
• Examples: (a) forging, (b) extrusion

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 Material Removal Processes
Excess material removed from the starting workpiece so
what remains is the desired geometry
• Examples: machining such as turning, drilling, and
milling; also grinding and nontraditional processes

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 Waste in Shaping Processes
It is desirable to minimize waste and scrap in part
shaping
• Material removal processes tend to be wasteful in the
unit operation, simply by the way they work
• Casting and molding usually waste little material
• Terminology:
- Net shape processes - when most of the starting
material is used and no subsequent machining is
required to achieve final part geometry
- Near net shape processes - when minimum
amount of machining is required

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 Property‑Enhancing Processes

• Performed to improve mechanical or physical

properties of the work material
• Part shape is not altered, except unintentionally
• Examples:
- Heat treatment of metals and glasses
- Sintering of powdered metals and ceramics

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 Surface Processing Operations
1. Cleaning - chemical and mechanical processes to
remove dirt, oil, and other contaminants from the
surface
2. Surface treatments - mechanical working such as
sand blasting, and physical processes like diffusion
3. Coating and thin film deposition - coating exterior
surface of the workpart
• Several surface processing operations used to
fabricate integrated circuits

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 Assembly Operations
Two or more separate parts are joined to form a new
entity
• Types of assembly operations:
1. Joining processes – create a permanent joint.
• Examples: welding, brazing, soldering, and
adhesive bonding
2. Mechanical assembly – fastening by mechanical
methods
- Examples: use of screws, bolts, nuts, other
threaded fasteners; press fitting, expansion fits

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 Production Systems
The people, equipment, and procedures designed for
the combination of materials and processes that
constitute a firm's manufacturing operations
• A manufacturing firm must have systems to
efficiently accomplish its type of production
• Two categories of production systems:
1. Production facilities
2. Manufacturing support systems
• Both categories include people (people make these
systems work)

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 Production Facilities
The factory, production equipment, and material
handling equipment
• The facilities "touch" the product
• Also includes the way the equipment is arranged in
the factory ‑ the plant layout
• Equipment usually organized into logical groupings,
called manufacturing systems
- Examples: automated production line, machine
cell consisting of an industrial robot and two
machine tools

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 Production Facilities and
Product Quantities
• A company designs its manufacturing systems and
organizes its factories to serve the particular mission
of each plant
• Certain types of production facilities are recognized
as the most appropriate for a given type of
manufacturing (combination of product variety and
production quantity)
• Different facilities are required for each of the three
quantity ranges

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 Low Quantity Production

Job shop is the term used for this production facility

• Low quantity range = 1 to 100 units/year
• A job shop makes low quantities of specialized and
customized products
• Products are typically complex, e.g., space capsules,
prototype aircraft, special machinery
• Equipment in a job shop is general purpose
• Labor force is highly skilled
• Designed for maximum flexibility

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 Low Quantity Production

Layouts used:
• Process or functional layout: individual components
of large products are produced on the machines
which are arranged according to function or type
• Fixed position layout (project shop): product is large
and heavy, hence difficult to move; it remains in a
single location during its fabrication or assembly;
workers and processing equipment are brought to the
product

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 Process (Functional) Layout

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 Fixed Position Layout

(mobile)

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 Medium Quantity Production

• Medium quantity range = 100 to 10,000 units

annually
• Two different types of facility, depending on product
variety:
- Hard product variety: batch production
- Soft product variety: cellular manufacturing

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 Cellular Manufacturing

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 High Production

• High quantity range = 10,000 to millions of units per

year
• Referred to as mass production
- High demand for product
- Manufacturing system dedicated to the
production of that product
• Two categories of mass production:
1. Quantity production
2. Flow line production

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 Quantity Production

Mass production of single parts on single machine or

small numbers of machines
• Typically involves standard machines equipped with
special tooling
• Equipment is dedicated full-time to the production of
one part type
• Typical layouts used in quantity production = process
layout and cellular layout

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 Flow Line Production

Multiple machines or workstations arranged in

sequence, e.g., production lines
• Product is complex and requires multiple processing
and/or assembly operations
• Work units are physically moved through the
sequence to complete the product
• Workstations and equipment are designed
specifically for the product to maximize efficiency

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 Flow Line Production

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 Production Facilities and
Product Quantities

Types of facilities and layouts used for different

level of production quantity and product variety

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 Manufacturing Support Systems
• A company must organize itself to design the
processes and equipment, plan and control the
production orders, and satisfy product quality
requirements
• These functions are accomplished by manufacturing
support systems ‑ people and procedures by which
a company manages its production operations
• Typical departments:
1. Manufacturing engineering
2. Production planning and control
3. Quality assurance

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 Figure 1.10 – Overview of production system

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