Mumbai University > mechanical engineering > Sem 7 > CAD/CAM/CAE

Marks: 6 Marks

Year: May 2016

• Group technology is a manufacturing technique and philosophy to increase production efficiency by exploiting the “underlying sameness” of component shape, dimensions, process route, etc.
• Group Technology is the realization that many problems are similar, and that by grouping similar problems, a single solution can be found to a set of problems thus saving time and effort.
• Opitz codes can have 3 sections
• 1st five-digit "geometric form code"
• Followed by a four digit "supplementary code"
• This may be followed by a company-specific four-digit "secondary code" intended for describing production operations and sequencing.