The College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering offers the bachelor of engineering degree in Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, which is the in-depth integration of advanced manufacturing technology and new generation information technology and runs through all links in the entire life cycle of product design, manufacturing, and service. It is a new engineering major opened by Chinese universities in 2017 for conforming to “Industry 4.0” and “Made in China 2025”. The department of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering for the Zhengzhou University of Light Industry (ZZULI) was founded in 2019. With the rapid development in recent three years, the department has 7 teachers (7 teachers with doctoral degree) and 149 undergraduates. The main subjects of specialty are Mechanical Engineering, Control Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology.
The core courses are Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Foundation, Industrial Robots and Applications, Sensors and Intelligent Detection Technology, Numerical Control Technology, Intelligent Production System Modeling and Simulation, Intelligent Production Plan Management and so on.
Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering students are trained to become versatile engineering graduates who can use cutting-edge engineering knowledge, computational, experimental, and analytical techniques to design, implement and improve technology-based manufacturing systems. It focuses on the technological, analytical, and managerial skills of integrating different technologies in intelligent manufacturing systems. The graduates would have a good understanding of the high-end technology and managerial skills of manufacturing system fitting “Made in China 2025” and are able to utilize systems concepts and tools to analyze real-world issues in industry with massive amounts of data and information.
The bachelor graduate of this major has basic scientific research ability in Intelligent Manufacturing for achieving jobs in traditional manufacturing industry and emerging technology-oriented enterprises. The beginning positions always include manufacturing engineer, industrial engineer, operations engineer, quality control engineers, testing engineer and systems engineer.
Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Foundation
Credit: 2
Class hour: 32
Course number: 2102047
Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Foundation focuses on summarizing or expounding various basic concepts, terminology and their generation, development and evolution of intelligent manufacturing technology, and concisely expounds and summarizes the key technologies of intelligent manufacturing. The content of this course includes the overview of intelligent manufacturing technology, intelligent design technology, intelligent processing technology, intelligent monitoring and control of processing process, intelligent manufacturing system and equipment, and artificial intelligence. This course is suitable as a textbook for mechanical core courses, as well as a postgraduate professional course textbook or reference material for related engineering and technical personnel.
Sensors and Intelligent Measurement Technology
Credit: 2
Class hour: 32
Course number: 2102048
Sensors and intelligent measurement technology is a core course of intelligent manufacture and provides the principle of modern sensor and measurement device. Through this course, students can master the types, functions and principles of a variety of sensors, get the basic skills of constructing a measurement solution for real measurement problems. Meanwhile, students possess the ability of analyzing the measurement results and error, which build a bridge for the gap between measurement theory and solving real measurement problems.
Modern Electrical and Programmable Logic Control
Credit: 2
Class hour: 32
Course number: 2102049
Modern electrical and programmable logic control (PLC) technology is an engineering course for automatic control, electrical technology, mechatronics, intelligent manufacturing and related majors. It mainly introduces the relay contact control system and the programmable controller control system. Through this course, students will master the basic theories of low-voltage electrical, control circuits, electrical control circuits, programmable controllers, as well as design methods and practical applications, which lay a solid foundation for the future work.
Industrial Robot and Application
Credit: 2
Class hour: 32
Course number: 2102050
Industrial robot technology is one of the core technologies for intelligent manufacturing system and an important trend of advanced manufacturing technology in the future. Industrial robots involve engineering technologies such as machinery, electronics, control, communication and sensors. it also needs basic theoretical disciplines such as advanced mathematics, linear algebra, theoretical mechanics and material science. The purpose of this course is to explain the basic theory of industrial robots ，some key technologies for the development of industrial robots and how to use industrial robots in industry, mainly involving the configuration, kinematic equations, dynamics, key functional components, intelligent sensing technology, etc. Through this course, students can understand the concepts and basic working principles of industrial robots, master some basic theories and professional knowledge of developing industrial robots, and learn the selection and application of main key functional components of industrial robots and intelligent sensing technology, how to apply industrial robots to build typical application systems.
Intelligent Production Plan Management
Credit: 2
Class hour: 32
Course number: 2102051
Intelligent Production Planning Management comprehensively and systematically introduces the basic methods, basic principles and compilation techniques of production planning and control under intelligent manufacturing mode, so that students can understand the basic structure and practical applications of production planning and control, and various methods of production planning and control. . The course trains students to use the basic principles of production planning and control to solve actual production problems, understand the connotation of production planning and control, and enable students to master several common quantitative and qualitative forecasting methods, and master common models of inventory analysis and control.
Intelligent Production System Modeling and Simulation
Credit: 2
Class hour: 32
Course number: 2102052
Intelligent production system modeling and simulation is a professional technical course of intelligent manufacturing engineering. Through learning, classroom education and computer training, students can understand how to use computer simulation technology to simulate the layout and scheduling management of intelligent production system. Through this course, students master the basic operation and functions of computer simulation software. This course makes students understand the basic steps of computer simulation.