Manufacturing Engineering Questions & Answers – Manufacturing Process Automation

This set of Manufacturing Engineering Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Automation Of Manufacturing Process”.

1. Wrist motion of y involves
a) right to left rotation of the object
b) up and down rotation of the object
c) twisting of the object about the arm axis
d) none of the mentioned
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2. Robots are specified by
a) pay load
b) dimension of work envelope
c) degree of freedom
d) all of the mentioned
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3. Hydraulic drives are used for a robot when
a) high torque is required
b) high power is required
c) rapid motion of robot arm
d) all of the mentioned
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4. The following type of robot is most suitable for pick and place operations
a) rectangular
b) cylindrical
c) spherical
d) jointed arm type
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5. A computer program that contains expertise in a particular domain is called an
a) automatic processor
b) intelligent planner
c) expert system processor
d) operations symbolizer
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6. The knowledge base of an expert system includes both facts and
a) theories
b) heuristics
c) algorithms
d) analysis
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7. A robot’s arm is also known as its
a) actuator
b) end effector
c) manipulator
d) servomechanism
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8. Which type of actuator generates a good deal of power but tends to be messy?
a) electric
b) hydraulic
c) pneumatic
d) none of the mentioned
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9. If a robot can alter its own trajectory in response to external conditions, it is considered to be
a) intelligent
b) mobile
c) non servo
d) open loop
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10. Programming a robot by physically moving it through the trajectory you want it to follow is called
a) contact sensing control
b) continuous path control
c) pick and place control
d) robot vision control
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11. Reasoning from a goal state towards an initial state is called
a) backward chaining
b) bidirectional
c) breadth first
d) heuristic
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12. Which device is mostly associated with automation?
a) flexible manufacturing
b) robots
c) computer graphics workstation
d) NC machine
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13. Choose the basic element for an automated machine tool
a) logic
b) NC tape programming
c) software
d) workstation
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14. Choose the robot component from the following
a) micro computer
b) coaxial cable
c) arm
d) software
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15. A configuration for a robot is
a) octagonal
b) oblong
c) square
d) spherical
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