FAME is located in the heart of the newly-constructed Leonhard Building, a state-of-the-art, $12 million, three-story building, home for the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

FAME is an integrated high bay laboratory for teaching and research with a 10,000 square foot base area. As the "Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education" (FAME), the facility has most of the elements of a real manufacturing facility. It includes many diverse manufacturing processes, including casting, welding, machining, forming, injection molding, assembly, as well as automated high-tech facilities dealing with robotics and assembly featuring Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) cells and robots.

The Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) area contains several state-of-the-art computer numerically controlled(CNC) machines, an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) and several industrial material handling robots. A simulation based control system is utilized for computer integrated control of the work cells.

The idea of FAME is to give current and future students the ability to learn and experience what it is like to work in a modern integrated factory floor. The design includes the capability to download instructions to workstations from central sources and machining and other fabrications systems can be monitored from remote sources. CAD/CAM software is available from central locations to give an overall perspective of the factory floor. Material handling and scheduling problems are studied within a factory setting itself.

FAME Virtual Information Center will soon offer you a journey into the world of FAME with live factory floor cameras, walk-through virtual tour, detailed information on machining, manufacturing processes and technology.

 

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