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ML1906 Factory Design - Shop Layout, Production Flow and Work Environment 7.5 credits

Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2025 Start 17 Mar 2025 programme students
- Course location
KTH Södertälje
- Duration
- 17 Mar 2025 - 2 Jun 2025
- Periods
- P4 (7.5 hp)
- Pace of study
50%
- Application code
61427
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
Swedish
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Places are not limited
- Target group
- No information inserted
- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
Contact
Course syllabus as PDF
Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.
Course syllabus ML1906 (Spring 2016–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus ML1906 (Spring 2016–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course disposition
Course contents
- Introduction to digital factories- what is a digital factory and why is it needed? Relation between digital and real factories
- Workshop layout and production philosophies in practice
- Introduction of a visualization program
- Digital visualisation and modelling of manufacturing concepts
- Digital visualisation and modelling of factory layouts
- Industry guest lectures on usage and benefits of digital factories
- Laboratory sessions on a specific use case for a digital factory
- Group assignment to develop proposal for a workshop-to-be, where one or more of Ecologically, Socially and Economically Sustainable Development are considered
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- Explain the principle of digital factories and their relation to real factories
- Use digital visualisation for: creation of layouts for complete factories, specific production and assembly cells and for assessment of manufacturing concepts
- Design a workplace with regard to ergonomics, light and sound
- Design a workplace considering ecologically, socially and economically sustainable development
- Compare and evaluate the benefits of designing workshops digitally, compared to doing it in real life
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
No information inserted
Literature
You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- INL1 - Assignment, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TEN1 - Written examination, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- ÖVN1 - Exercises, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, 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.
Examiner
Ethical approach
- 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.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Technology
Education cycle
First cycle