DETAILEDPROGRAMCourse ECTS

Lect.ETCSLab.

Teacher Content

TeamBuilding 1 2 RiccardoPaterniUniv.ofPisa

• Identification and practical development ofskillsappliedtoprojectdevelopmentand

• organisational contexts. Theywill be relateddirectly to specific dynamics concerning themaster contents (inclusive of relevant casestudiesfromthepastandpresent).

• Leadership in organizational projectdevelopmentandmanagement

• The foundations on grounded personaldevelopment

• Vision, mission, values & behaviours inleadership

• Effective and efficient tools to manage andempowerpeople

• Communication as channel to projectdevelopmentandmanagement

• Thefoundationsofcommunicationdynamics• Communication in organizational

environments• Knowledge identification, development and

sharing• Teamworkset-upanddevelopment• Thefoundationsofsynergieswithinateam• Managingteamworkdynamics• The levers of project management to

empowerteamwork

LeanorganizationandLeandevelopmentLeanManufacturing

2 1 LucianoAttolicoIndustrialConsultantMariacristinaBontiUniv.ofPisa

LeanOrganization• IntroductiontoLeanOrganization• Strategy deployment fromVision to Bowling

Chart• CaseStudies/Exercise

LeanProduct&ProcessDevelopment• Introduction to impact innovation (way to

generatedisruptiveinnovation)• Lean methods to manage and develop

products/servicefromideatoproduction• Productmodularityandarchitecture• CaseStudies/Exercise

LeanPhilosophy• Introductiontoprinciples• The value stream mapping (VSM) to

reorganizecompanyprocesses• Main methods and tools of Lean approach

(Kaizen,VisualManagement,5S,Kanban)• Leanthinkingapproachfocusedonpersons• CaseStudies/Exercise

Target Costing& ProfitabilityAnalysis

2 1 RiccardoGiannetti,Univ.ofPisaLauraRissoUniv.ofPisaAndreaDelloSbarbaUniv.ofPisa

Introductionandprofitabilityanalysis• Introductiontomanagerialaccounting• Costterms,conceptsandclassifications• Basicsconceptsofcostassignment• The rationale for Product and customer

profitabilityanalysis• Casestudies

Targetcosting• The approach to the cost calculation: the

marketviewvstheprocessapproach;• Committedandincurredcosts• Thecalculationofthetargetcost• Thetargetcostingprocess• Investmentanalysisandselection• Casestudies

Statistics forEngineers

1 1 MicheleBarsanti

• Descriptive statistics: population, sample,sample statistics, measurement errors and

Univ.ofPisa

theirestimate.• Probability theory: various probability

definitions, discrete and continuous randomvariables and their most widely useddistributions;centrallimittheorem.

• Inferential statistics: estimation ofdistributionparameters,confidenceintervals,hypothesistests,varianceanalysis,regressionanalysis.

• Qualitycontroloutputfromproduction• Controlcards• Reducedandreinforcedsamplingplans• Referencestandards

Productionmanagement

2 2 MarcelloBragliaUniv.ofPisa

• Designingofproductionlines• Balancingofproductionlines

Layout,HandlingandMaterialFlow.• Warehousemanagement• WorkCenters• CycletimesandTakttime

Quality,Reliability andSafety ofMachines (FTA,FMEA, FMECA,etc)

2 1 RenzoCapitaniUniv. ofFlorence

• QualityFunctionDeployment(QfD)• Introduction to reliability concepts (failure

rate, MTTF, MTBF) and major failuredistributions (Gauss, Exponential, Weibull);reliabilityofsystems(series/parallel);Bayestheorem.

• Reliable methodologies for machineperformanceandsafetydesign

• FMEA/FMECA• Cause-effectdiagram(Ishikawa)• FTAandHAZOP,WHATIFMETHOD,...)

SixSigma,DFSS 1 2 Gianni

CampatelliUniv. ofFlorence

• Analysisofpoorqualitycost• DefinitionofaSixSigmaproject• Basictoolfordataanalysis• Analyzingtheprocess• DesignofExperiment• Creationofnewsolutions• Validatetheimprovedsolution• Analysisof real-lifeautomotivecasestudy in

cooperation• DOE

IntegratedMechatronicSystems

2 2 SergioSaponaraUniv.ofPisa

Lectures• Dataacquisitionbysensors• Management and control via electronic

controlunits(ECUs)ordataloggingsensors• Signalacquisitionanddigitizationchains• Electronic processing/control systems (DSPs,

microcontrollers)• Electro-mechanical actuators (injectors,

solenoid valves, electric motors,piezoelectric,resistiveactuators,..)

• X-by-wire and networking (CAN) systems,product-specific analyzes (what does thecustomerwantandwhatcanIprovide?)

• Components (whatdoes thesuppliermarketoffer,whatdoIneed,whatdoIchoose?)

Laboratory• Case studies/application examples for

multiple groups to be defined withcompanies such as: E-latch, BatteryManagement and Monitoring System forElectric Vehicles (E-bike, E-scooter, hybridcar)

• Electro-actuators(electro-injectors,e-pumps)

Test, MeasureandComponentLife CycleCharacterization

1 2 SergioSaponaraUniv.ofPisaAlexejGamanetsPontlab

Lectures• Functional Safety for Vehicle Industry,

ISO26262,V&Vmethodology• Lyfe Cycle characterization component,

acceleratedtests(Arrhenius)• Electromagnetic-electromagnetic-vibration-

electromagnetic(EMC/EMI)tests• Bathtupreliabilitycurves• MTBFcalculation• TestplanandcoverageofthetestsLaboratoryCase/application examples for several groups inparallel on cases of interest of companies:exemaples: E-latch, automotive control units,power systems, (power transformers, energystorage),Electro-Injectors,e-pumps

Patents andIntellectualProperty

1 1 MarcoPieriniUniv. ofFlorence

Patentsandutilitymodels• Licensing requirements, protection and

retentioncriteria• Patentingprocedures• Industrialsecretandknow-how• Substantialprofilesandprotectioncriteria

Unfaircompetition:• The three types of competition and the

"new"typesofunfaircompetition• Patent Structure and Patent Research

fundamentalso structureandfieldsofapatento patentclasses

IndustrialPropertyCode:employeeinventionExercises• Freewarewebsearchandpatentdatabases• General criteria for setting up a patent

research• Patentsearchexamplesandexercises

DynamicSystemsDesign:StructuralDynamics,Noise &Vibration

2 2 LeonardoBertiniUniv.ofPisa

• Experimentalmodalanalysis• Numericalmodalanalysis• Vibrational acoustic analysis of rotating

systems• Concentratedparameteranalysis• methods for medium-high frequency vibro-

acousticanalysis• Mechanismdynamics

Multibodydynamics

2 2 FrancescoFrendo Univ.ofPisa

• Elementsof3Dkinematics• Rotationmatrixformulation

kinematic chains and Denavit Hartembergformulation

• ConstraintsEquation• Inversedynamics• Dynamics

Exercises with MatLab and / or multibodycode

CFD Fluiddynamics (1D,3D)

2 2 GiovanniFerraraUniv. ofFlorence

• Fluid dynamics foundations: theoreticalreferences.

• Numerical methods for resolution ofdifferentialequations(1Dand3D)

• CFD theory: generating grid computing,turbulencemodels,resolutionalgorithms

• Exercises with AMESim and / or other 1Dsoftware.Applicationexamples

• Exercises with Fluent and / or other CFDsoftware.Applicationexamples

Toleranceanalysis(VSA)

1 1 LapoGoverniUniv. ofFlorence

• Summary of Geometric and DimensionalSpecifications (GD & T) according to ASMEY14.5andISO1101

• Analysisoftraditionaltolerances(linearstackups)

• Worst-Caseanalysis• Statisticalanalysis• Sensitivityanalysis• OptimizationofPerformanceandCost-based

Tolerances• Tolerance analysis in the presence of

geometricspecificationsComputerAidedTolerancing(methodological

notes and practical applications withdedicatedsoftware)

• examples and application of techniquesillustratedincasestudies

Applicationexamples usedinthecourses

Industrialexperts

Each company proposes at least onecomponent/group to be studied, so thatparticipants at the end of theMaster know theproducts of the companies. Each componentappliesthemethodologiesstudiedinthecourses.Candidateswillbeaskedtosignaconfidentialityagreement