AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE: To give the students knowledge about the
design of basic units used in modern machine-building industry and in high degree automated
machinery; computer aided analysis practice, CNC programming, basic principles of machine
tool design.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE: General principles of machine design; Concurrent
engineering; Functional characteristics of machine tools; Work accuracy; Stiffness; Thermal
deflections; Technical performances of production machinery; Main and feed drives –
requirements, kinds of drives; Spindle systems; Linear drives; Beds and bodies – materials,
requirements; Guideways; Lubrication of production machines; Forms of flexible
manufacturing automation; Subsystems of flexible manufacturing structures and their
components; Technological design for flexible manufacturing structures; Program
composition tool nose compensation, tool offset, manual programming; Canned and multiple
repetitive cycles; Computer programming for CNC machines using programming languages
FAPT and GEOPATH.
