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You are a manufacturing engineer in a new medium sized company called UAE Manufacturing Solutions UAEms, you have been asked by your manager to investigate and explain how the organisation will cater for Health & Safety. Identify key aspects that relate to requirements by law, such as systems, safety representatives, Inspection procedures etc.

LO 1.2
As part of being a new company you will have to adhere to the legal requirements and procedures for health and safety inspections – generate a procedure for this that can be used in training for all employees of the company. Include suitable scenarios to illustrate the application of this procedure.

LO 1.3 

As a new company you are looking to install automated systems which include the following, Two Flexible Manufacturing Cells (FMC) and one Flexible manufacturing system(FMS), all these systems will use either non-programmable loading systems or programmable robotic systems – you are to investigate and understand the safety requirements that apply for these systems and produce a report on your findings. 

LO 2.1 
Following on from LO1.3 
You have been tasked to review the range of suitable Advanced Manufacturing
Technology (AMT) installations based on the layout below and the additional types identified: -

single/multi spindle autos, gantry loading, multi-pallet systems, CNC mill-turn centres, live tooling, probe systems for work and tool setting, adaptive control systems, CNC mill-turn centres, C axis turning, Y axis lathes, block tooling and sister tooling. Include visual evidence and technical detail on their function and suitability for Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

LO 2.2 
The company is thinking of a long term expansion plan and require a detailed investigation and evaluation into a range of different manufacturing strategies which would be suitable for different volumes being produced, include in your investigation examples of the products that are manufactured by the different strategies  
Examples of the strategies are below

Manufacturing strategies: high volume production techniques; transfer lines; flexible
transfer lines, group technology (GT), FMS, FMC, low-volume and small, medium and large batch
production techniques; one-off and prototype production.