Semester

Semester 1, 2019

• Yuqian Lu
• Jan Polzer
• Xun Xu (coordinator)

Pauls Davis and Reza Hamzeh as GTAs

An appreciation of the strategic systems and technology management aspects of manufacturing systems. Industry based projects that explore the design and optimisation of manufacturing operations form a major part of the course.
Prerequisite: B grade or higher in ENGGEN 303Restriction: MECHENG 451

Further notes

Course Outline
MECHENG 752 is a paper offered to final year and post graduate students. It introduces students to "real world" problems and provides them with a solid understanding and hands-on experience of the Process Innovation and Technology Management in an industrial setting. Providing experiences that extend beyond more traditional university courses, the paper is an excellent chance for students that want to challenge and extend their perceptions of the environment that contemporary New Zealand manufacturing and logistics businesses are facing.
Course Prerequisites
It is required that the students who take this paper took ENGGEN 303.
Course Organisation
This paper has in-class lectures (Monday 9-11 am) and tutorial sessions (Friday 10 am - 12 pm). This paper will be 80% assessed by way of coursework, i.e. Reflection of Learnings (ROL) (10%), a project proposal (10%), Interim report (10%), presentation (10%) and final project report (40%). Another 20% will be assessed by a test.
Students will be divided into several groups, each of which will be assigned a real-life industry project. Students are going to meet with industry people who are from local companies.
The details of this course are as follows, though course contents will be adjusted according to the up-to-date situations or the availability of invited industry/guest speakers:
• Introduction to technology management: value chain analysis, definitions of technology and innovation;
• Project proposal and management: how to write a professional proposal, identification of project scope and objectives; project management technology;
• Business analysis and strategic technology management: tools of business analysis, strategic view of technology, vision and strategy, strategic plan of technology and innovation;
• Industry 4.0 – the 4th Industrial Revolution, e.g. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT);
• Industry case studies: several real industry cases will be presented;
• Industry 4.0 Readiness assessment: maturity model for assessing Industry 4.0 readiness and maturity of manufacturing enterprises;
• Process Improvement: approaches to improvement, what/how to improve, process mapping, value stream mapping and theory of constraints;
• Drivers and diffusion of innovation: technology push examples, market pull, diffusion of innovation, etc;
• Analytical tools: business experiments, data analytical tools, etc.
• Technology design and development: customer requirement analysis, technology selection, design and development solutions, system testing, and implementation.

This paper is 80% assessed by way of coursework, i.e. Reflection of Learnings (ROL) (10%), a project proposal (10%), Interim report (10%), presentation (10%) and final project report (40%). Another 20% will be assessed by a test.
Students will be divided into several groups, each of which will be assigned a real-life industry project. Students are going to meet with industry people who are from local companies.

There is no specific rule for the exam.

Students are urged to discuss privately any impairment-related requirements face-to-face and/or in written form with the course convenor/lecturer and/or tutor.

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