Course detail
Manufacturing Technology I
FSI-2VT-A Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course familiarizes students with the fundamentals of engineering technology and enables them to test practically individually selected operations.
1. Technology of presswork of sheet metal with practical application of operations of shearing, punching and bending on given components.
2. Technology of bulk forming with a view to free forging of material under heat using the operations of hot drawing, flattening and bending on given components.
3. Technology of gas welding, inclusive of mastering the fundamentals and manipulation with welding torch.
4. Technology of casting oriented to the fabrication of elementary mould and complicated mould with complicated parting plane.
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Knowledge of technological courses of the 1st year of study.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The course-unit credits award is based on attendance at seminars, correct elaboration and active student participation in its processing.
The final exam will be composed of written and oral part. It is classificated to the ECTS grading scale.
The missed lessons will be compensated in another groups´ lessons based on the agreement with a competent teacher.
Attendance in exercises is compulsory.
The attendance to the seminar is regularly checked and the participation in the lesson is recorded.
Language of instruction
English
Aims
The subject Production Technology I would enable the students to try practice some operations of single technologies on the base of which they would continue theoretical knowlege during theier next bachelor of general type of study.
Students are acquainted with presented technologies and they acquire manual skills when doing single operations, which they use during their further studies when preparing experiments.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-STI-A: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 4 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
- Crystallization and solidification of castings.
- Riseringst, stress, running system.
- The production of casting moulds and models, the ways of moulding.
- Machine moulding, permanent moulds, melting of metals.
- The laws of plastic deformation in the forming process.
- The production of metallurgical raw product – sheet metals, tubes, profiles, wires etc.
- Sheet metal forming – technology of cutting, deep drawing, bending.
- Bulk forming – extrusion, upsetting, forging.
- Welding – fusion welding, the basic methods of flame and electricity welding.
- Resistance welding, spot welding, seam welding, special ways.
- Pressure welding, brazing.
- The parting of metals-the methods’principles.
- Review of introduce technologies, questions to the exame.
Laboratory exercise
22 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Weeks 2 to 12 – Stamping shop, forging shop, welding, foundry – manufacturing of products according to the technological process.
1. Stamping shop:
a) Basic information about metal sheet processing technology by cutting and bending.
b) Familiarization with the hand tools and machines that will be used in the work.
2. Forging shop:
a) Basic information about hot metal forming technology by forging.
b) Familiarization with forging tools, machines for free forging and operation of forge.
3. WELDING:
a) Demonstration preparation and demonstration of burner ignition, types of flame, demonstration of welding sheet metal parts.
b) Description of a given task, individual training of material melting and fusion weld with filler material.
4. FOUNDRY:
a) Introduction to melting equipment used in foundries.
b)Mold casting and casting evaluation.
Exercise
4 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction and work safety.
13. Evaluation of exercises and credits.