Learning Goals

The teaching course aims to provide a solid foundation on the evaluation of the performance of manufacturing processes. This is achieved through the study of technological dynamics, the analysis of the forms of technology transfer, identifying the logic product-process, synergies, opportunities and weaknesses, which are the critical success factors in the relationship between innovation and market. In this context we study the lean production, with particular attention to the push-pull models.

Prerequisites

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Course Syllabus

The phases of the technological dynamics - The scientification of the technology - Technology as a function of production - Technology as a system - Technological substitutability - Types and forms of technology - The appropriateness of technologies - The intrinsic qualities of a technology - The life cycle of product and technology - The industrial system "traditional" and "advanced". The innovative process R & D and competitiveness - The nature of innovation - Types of technological innovation - Model in product innovation and process innovation - Innovation and forms of technological progress - Parameters endogenous and exogenous factors that cause the innovation process - Penetration of technological innovation - Consequences of technological innovation - Innovative activity and firm size - Technology transfer - The main forms of technology transfer - Infrastructure and transfer costs - The technological balance. The new requirements - The automation of industrial production - Automation of process control - Automation of production for parts - Automation rigid, flexible and programmable - The main equipment for flexible automation - The flexible manufacturing systems - Strategies for the development of systems flexible - The profitability of flexible systems - The layout of production - The production flow - The functions of the computer: CAD, CAE, CAM, CIM, MP, CS -The decentralization of production inside and outside -New forms and objectives of decentralization - The productive agglomerations - Push and Pull production Systems.