ISTI has a supply chain laboratory aimed at helping facilitate the understanding of basic concepts of industrial engineering by reinforcing them with stimulus-response exercises. The purpose is to understand, manipulate, create and reproduce a realistic supply chain environment where concepts, such as transportation, shipping routes, information flow, order processing, storage design and administration as well as material management and packaging, are learned.
The methods engineering laboratory is where students can design work cells, carry out time and movement studies through basic and advanced assemblies, manuals, and basic tools, calculate standard times, and balance different operations and the use of tables for the study of predetermined times. In addition, students can understand the process to facilitate the continuous flow of materials in production lines, to reduce the production cycle time, to increase the flow of materials, to improve ergonomic operating times as well as analyze how the production process can convert into one or more flexible manufacturing cells, typically in the “U” or “L” shape.
Lean Simulator.
This simulator is based on the Toyota production system. It is designed to demonstrate in a hands-on way the differences between a traditional production system and lean one, and the benefits of the latter. It allows students to create the dynamic of a factory producing components through different processes with different manufacturing cycle times.
Flexible Structures.
In the same laboratory, there is a flexible structure system, which was created to generate a continuous flow of materials to work stations located on assembly lines in an efficient and flexible way that allows them to be adapted to different types of work, locations, and distributions. It is the ideal tool for the implementation of Lean Manufacturing. With this equipment, students can acquire a sense of belonging, confidence and motivation to create and build different structures and work stations with greater adaptability.
The golden rule of lean manufacturing is that movement or waste in production lines must be eliminated since that is where the product’s value is created. Lean structures favor the creation of added value.
This laboratory has quality and metrology equipment, such as cameras with artificial vision and 3D profile measuring. These cameras are generally developed for quality control of manufactured or assembled products with the goal of reducing failures. Working with this equipment allows students to gain a greater perspective since artificial vision can be applied to any industrial process. Its use is particularly prevalent in the automotive, electronics, packaging, food, pharmaceutical, aeronautical, metallurgical, and ceramic industries.
In the course on Computerized Drawing with a focus on quality, students develop the ability to create and interpret technical drawings of mechanical elements. In addition to the use of CAD software, from the start of the course, students are taught to do technical drawings by pencil on drawing boards in order to better understand the process that software follows as well as the importance and nature of drawing. This is of utmost importance in areas related to quality, engineering, maintenance, automation, design, manufacturing and implementation of industrial systems.
The ISTI computer centers have SAP Business One software for the design and application of integrated practices in different subjects, such as the Design of Information Systems and Advanced Production Planning. It is also used in the upcoming master´s program in Integrated Supply Systems.http://go.sap.com/spain/product/enterprise-management/business-one.html
The goal is for students to experience the SAP platform at an intermediate level. This allows students to:
- obtain more detailed knowledge of the software through the gathering and use of information.
- simulate control over all of the elements of a virtual business and its resources.
- analyze the technical and economic feasibility for the operation of the software.
Minitab software, version 17, is also widely used in subjects related to quality, such as: Statistics, Quality Control, System Quality, Experiment Design, Metrology and Six Sigma.
Minitab is the leading software in the world for teaching statistics. It is used in more than 4,000 high education institutions around the world. It is also the most used software in quality improvement initiatives in both business and industry. https://www.minitab.com
Students pursuing a Bachelor’s in Industrial Systems and Technology Engineering use the science laboratory in subjects such as Physics, Thermodynamics, and Mechanics where they can gain a better understanding of the science and phenomena being studied. The aim of the equipment in this laboratory is to help students understand the variables that can affect a problem, determine the resources required to analyze it from different perspectives, and make decisions to solve the problem.
The Department of Industrial Systems and Technology engineering has the support of the Advanced Manufacturing Center in several subjects, such as Metrology, Industrial Control Systems, Quality Control, Manufacturing Processes, and Integrating Production Systems I and II. There are spaces designed and equipped to learn about and use conventional machine tools, measuring instruments, and electro pneumatic equipment and to learn about computer integrated manufacturing.
Metrology
Industrial Control Systems
In the Bachelor´s in Industrial Systems and Technology Engineering, there are courses with semester projects that are carried out in real industrial facilities. This allows students to face real life situations, which helps them to better develop knowledge and skills acquired throughout their academic career. The goal of these projects is to help students advance from semester to semester and to facilitate their transition to the industrial labor sector.
