Discussion. 1. Name a distinction between a mechanical and an industrial engineer

1. Name a distinction between a mechanical and an industrial engineer.

2. What kinds of problems does industrial engineering deal with?

3. How do industrial engineers try to use plants and equipment?

4. What are some factors the industrial engineer must consider?

5. When did industrial engineering get started in fact if not in name? Give examples of early efforts that can be considered in­dustrial engineering.

6. Name a major development in manufacturing in the twentieth century. What techniques does this involve?

7. How is mass production often exemplified by the assembly of automobiles?

8. Discuss efficiency and productivity in mass production.

9. Describe some experiments to increase productivity on assembly lines.

10. How is the industrial engineer involved in this problem?

11. When and why was the word automation coined?

12. Give some examples of automation that were in use before the word itself was created.

13. Describe the forerunner of the modern computer punch card.

14. What are some elements of an automated system? What makes them possible?

15. What is a program? What does it do in an automated system?

16. Name two terms used to describe the elements which do the actual work. What are some jobs these elements may do?

17. What are some of the things sensing devices do?

18. How do sensing devices act on the information they receive? Why the process is sometimes called feedback?

19. What is the function of the decision element? What can it do?

20. What does the control element consist of? What can these devices do? What is their purpose?

21. To what kinds of industries was automation first applied?

22. What was a later development in industrial automation?

23. What skills are necessary on a team involved in industrial automation? Why are people with these various skills involved?

24. What do we call an industrial engineer with a number of different automation skills?

Review:

A. Complete the following sentences with the appropriate word or phrase.

1._______________ engineering is a branch of mechanical engineering that is involved primarily with manufacturing pro­cesses.

2. When large numbers of products those are exactly similar, like automobiles, are being manufactured _______________ techniques will probably be used.

3. An _______________ consists of conveyer belts or chain drives those deliver products and materials to workers at particular times during the manufacturing process.

4. _______________ involves systems for operating or controlling machines mechanically rather than by the action of human be­ings.

5. A step-by-step sequence that breaks a job into individual parts is a ______________.

6. _______________ elements perform the actual work in an automated system.

7. _______________ devices may convey materials to specific places at specific times or may perform operations on the materials.

8. _______________ devices check on conditions such as heat, thickness, and weight in an automated system.

9. The process that returns information to the control is called ___________________.

10. The _______________ element in an automated system can compare what is happening with what should be happening and then give instructions so that the system will function ac­cording to its program.

11. The devices such as valves, switches, and voltage regulators that carry out instructions of the decision element are known collec­tively as the _______________ element.

B. Make a diagram of the way in which you think the different elements in an automated system work in relation to each other. Explain briefly the function of each element in the system.