High speed machining: High speed machining offers increased machining productivity but that comes with a heavy tag on flank wear resulting in high consumption of cutting tools. This course teaches how to optimize the high-speed machining processes through integration of manufacturing science, machines, fracture mechanics, material behavior and processes so that machining productivity with reduced cutting tool consumption would be achieved. Several past industrial case studies would be included in this course.
High speed grinding: Presently grinding wheel speed is limited to 30 m/s. High speed grinding of above 200 m/s wheel speed offer enhanced grinding productivity. The high-speed grinding technology fragments the chips into small sizes and thus opens up opportunities for enhancing the work feed rate for improving the grinding productivity. This course address the challenges and opportunities with real industrial case studies.
Micro/Nano Manufacturing: Manufacturing engineering features of size 0.5 mm and below remains as an ardent challenge. This course address the different micro/nano manufacturing techniques and processes to successfully manufacture miniature engineering features and components.
High Precision Glass Optics Manufacturing: In this course the participants would learn how to assess manufacturing processes, machine tools and metrology methods to manufacture optical components. They learn how to evaluate production strategies for higher quality, higher output, higher complexity and lower costs.
Manufacture of IC chips from Ingot to silicon wafer and into IC Chips: The course content would include Overview of IC Processing; Silicon Processing; Lithography ; Layer Processes Used in IC Fabrication; Integrating the Fabrication Steps; IC Packaging; Yields in IC Processing; Electronics Packaging; Printed Circuit Boards; Printed Circuit Board Assembly ; Surface-Mount Technology; and Electrical Connector Technology
Manufacturing Challenges in Dicing: This course would include Different dicing methods (scribing, Laser Dicing, plasma dicing, dicing wheel dicing, wire dicing); Dicing wheel designs (resin bonded dicing wheel and electroformed dicing wheel); ID Dicing and problems; Dicing Problems (chipping and dicing wheel wear; AI in dicing
Manufacturing Challenges in back grinding: This course would include Introduction to back grinding machines, tooling and processes; back grinding challenges for thinned silicon wafer; shape of back grinding wheel; mechanism of back grinding; effect of pore forming agent in back grinding wheel; Research towards warping and edge chipping of Silicon wafer during back grinding; coolant application to the Silicon wafer grinding; Research on Sub-Surface Damage and TTV in back grinding
Manufacturing challenges in Chemical mechanical polishing: This course would include CMP Introduction; CMP working Mechanism; CMP systems; CMP process behavior studies; CMP slurry developments; CMP pad design and innovations; CMP pad conditioner; Vibration assisted CMP; Ultrasonic Vibration assisted CMP
Grinding and Polishing process: Manufacture of hard and brittle materials is challenging. This course unveils the successful methods of grinding and polishing for the mission critical components and the course content is built on fundamentals of grinding and polishing sciences
Manufacturing Challenges in the Metal Powder based Additive Manufacturing: Use of Powder bed fusion (PBF) processes is increasing but several of industrial challenges are not addressed. This course gives a comprehensive fundamentals, fusion sciences and application techniques to successfully produce the metal based additive manufacturing components.
AI in Manufacturing: The on-going thrust towards a high value manufacturing and services necessitate the manufacturing industries to ensure total system uptime, reliability and efficiency particularly for mission-critical high value assets. Conventional approaches such as scheduled preventive maintenance and reactive “fail-and-fix” methods are no longer adequate or effective to meet the increasingly higher operational availability at an affordable cost. In addition, with a paradigm shift towards “fly by the hour” business models, original equipment, lines, engines and tools manufacturers (OEMs) are compelled to remodel the traditional ways of maintaining these resources in order to broaden their revenue streams by providing 100 per cent fulfilment at all time. Use of intelligent maintenance systems (IMS) aim to transform maintenance into predictive reliability so that a consistent quality can be maintained in the tool manufacturing. This course unveils building the IMS platform and application to the real manufacturing problems.
