The course aims to develop the competencies required to fulfil the cross-functional role played by an industrial plant engineer within a company. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the product to be manufactured and/or the logistics service to be provided; selecting the most suitable equipment—machinery and production systems—for manufacturing the product; and determining the optimal arrangement of machinery and the various production and/or logistics areas within the plant. Once the required production and/or logistics capacities have been established, it is necessary to define the buildings needed to accommodate the various areas—production, logistics, and ancillary areas—and to identify the transport and storage systems required to ensure production efficiency and/or the efficient provision of services. Further aspects include the design of utility systems, safety optimisation, the design of workplaces according to ergonomic principles, and the related economic assessments. Basic project management principles enable the coordination of the many activities carried out throughout the entire life cycle of a production and logistics facility. Therefore, by the end of the course, students will be expected to have acquired the following competencies: • defining the optimal plant layout of a complex facility while complying with technological, logistics, regulatory, and economic constraints; • selecting and sizing optimal warehouse solutions in terms of storage systems and related operational activities, such as picking and sorting; • selecting optimal solutions for the various internal transport systems used within industrial facilities; • carrying out the preliminary design of safety systems in an industrial plant; • carrying out the preliminary design of energy distribution systems, such as compressed air systems; • applying the principles of complex industrial plant management by defining optimal management strategies that take economic and organisational aspects into account. Furthermore, to develop independent judgement and technical communication skills, students will be expected to be able to: • prepare professional technical reports; • make well-founded design decisions when faced with conflicting requirements; • rapidly estimate the orders of magnitude of the numerical values that an engineer can reasonably expect in the main reference cases. Knowledge, competencies, and skills are acquired through the study of practical problems selected as representative examples because they are relevant to engineering applications and suitable for introducing the range of methods that a mechanical plant engineer is expected to master.

Elements of technical physics, applied mechanics, statistics, main software for 2D and 3D design.

- Introduction to productive systems - Criteria for industrial plants location - Criteria for industrial plants design - Plant layout design - Industrial Buildings, Lightening and Electricals, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning systems: reference legislation, design criteria - Industrial warehouses - Traditional material handling equipment - Automated material handling equipment - Managing workplace safety: reference legislation and methodological - Compressed Air systems: reference legislation, design and sizing - Water and Fire protection systems: reference legislation and design criteria

In addition to a series of theoretical lectures covering the course content, the teaching activities include group work carried out as part of the practical sessions. In particular, the practical work consists of developing a preliminary design for a section of a logistics facility or an industrial complex. This enables students to apply the competencies and skills required to fulfil the highly cross-functional role expected of today’s industrial plant engineers in logistics and production environments. Throughout the course, groups of students work on the project and receive weekly guidance and support from the instructors, including assistance in consulting specialised catalogues and relevant regulations and standards.

Meyers, Manufacturing Facilities Design & Material Handling, Pearson, 2009 Reference legislation UE reference safety legislation Lecture notes provided by the teaching staff

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Exam: Written test; Group project;

The final mark will be determined by the sum of the grades awarded for the written examination and the group project work. No oral examination is required. The written examination lasts 70 minutes and consists of exercises and appropriately structured open- and closed-ended questions designed to assess the students’ level of preparation, particularly in terms of the knowledge acquired. The written examination is assessed up to a maximum of 24 points out of 30. No reference materials are allowed during the examination; all the information and materials required to solve the exercises will be provided during the examination. The industrial plant design skills acquired by the students are also assessed through an overall evaluation of the group project outcomes. The assessment considers the engineering, managerial, organisational, and regulatory aspects involved throughout the entire development of the project. The group project is assessed up to a maximum of 8 points out of 30. At the beginning of the course, the deadlines for the intermediate submissions and the final submission of the group project will be established and communicated to the students.

In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.