1. Define manufacturing engineering.
2. What are the principal activities in manufacturing engineering?
3. Identify some of the details and decisions that are included within the scope of process planning.
4. What is a route sheet?
5. What is the difference between a basic process and a secondary process?
6. What is a precedence constraint in process planning?
7. In the make or buy decision, why is it that purchasing a component from a vendor may cost more than producing the component internally, even though the quoted price from the vendor is lower than the internal price?
8. Identify some of the important factors that should enter into the make or buy decision.
9. Name three of the general principles and guidelines in design for manufacturability.
10. What is concurrent engineering and what are its important components?
11. What is meant by the term design for life cycle?