MF2004 Advanced Machine Design 18.0 credits

• Project work (mainly an industrial problem with focus on detail design in a system context)
• Innovation, creativity and patent
• Information sources and search, benchmarking
• The product development process, project planning
• Requirement specification, QFD
• Concept development, functions-means tree, concept selection
• Detail design, considering environmental effects, material selection, ergonomics.
• Solid mechanics for modeling and dimensioning (both using FEM and analytical)
• Manufacturing documents (detail drawings including manufacturing tolerances).
• Assembling, testing, evaluation, redesign
• Presentation and communication, both orally and in different form of written documentation.

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Plan an lead product development work of modern integrated and modularized products.
• Design and detail both simple products as well as subsystems of more complicated mechanical products from idea to manufacturing drawings and prototype.
• Apply earlier acquired knowledge within e.g. mechanics, solid mechanics, electrical engineering and product development.
• Select material and manufacturing method in an engineering manner.
• Analyze and dimension both simple products as well as subsystems of more complicated mechanical products in an engineering manner.
• Develop and estimate loads for both simple products as well as subsystems of more complicated mechanical products, as a basis for dimensioning of structure elements as well as selection of machine elements and materials.
• Apply basic criteria for designing products considering e.g. load lines, load distribution, adaptation for manufacturing.
• Produce detail drawings including manufacturing tolerances for subsystems in complicated  system products.

Design products in a way such that the environmental effect of the product is minimized.

Compulsory for
MKN(M4, P4, T4)
Eligible are those who have finished these courses:

M-students MG1004, ME1001
P-students: MF1014, MH1005, SD1115, ME1001
T-students: EL1000, MF1017, SD2125, SE1025, SF1861, SF1907

TIPUM track IPUB

You must be qualified for studies in grades 4 to attend the course.
The course includes projects  which requires that the curriculum compulsory modules are sought and approved.

Course literature in english wil be presnted later.

In Swedish:

1 - Johannesson, Persson, Pettersson, “Produktutveckling – effektiva metoder för konstruktion och design”, Liber Förlag, 2004.

2 – Olsson, Karl-Olof. “Maskinelement”, Liber Förlag 2006.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• PRO1 - Project, 6.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO2 - Project, 6.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO3 - Project, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• TEN1 - Examination, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Kjell Andersson

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.