Collaborative product assembly design and assembly planning : methodologies and applications

Collaborative product assembly design and assembly planning presents several newly-developed methodologies and applications for collaborative assembly design and assembly planning, two important steps during the product development life cycle. These benefits include effective and rapid assembly desi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Lu, Cong, 1971-
Other Authors Fuh, J. Y. H., Wong, Y. S.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia, PA : Woodhead Pub., 2011.
SeriesWoodhead Publishing in mechanical engineering.
Subjects
Assembly-line methods.
Industrial design.
Design.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857093882
0857093886
9781613447932
1613447930
9780857090539
0857090534
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiii, 196 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Collaborative Product Assembly Design and Assembly Planning: Methodologies and applications; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, tables and lists; Acknowledgements; Preface; About the authors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Key issues in collaborative assembly design; 1.3 Key issues in collaborative assembly planning; 1.4 Organization of the book; References; 2 Literature survey; 2.1 Survey on assembly design; 2.2 Survey on evaluation of the tolerance influence on product assemblability; 2.3 Survey on assembly planning; 2.4 Research works in this book; References.
  • 3 Collaborative assembly design3.1 An assembly representation model for collaborative design; 3.2 Functions of the co-assembly representation model; 3.3 Design modification propagation control mechanism; 3.4 System implementation; 3.5 Case study; 3.6 Summary; References; 4 Evaluation of product assemblability in different assembly sequences; 4.1 Tolerance categorization and representation; 4.2 Clearance in assembly and representation; 4.3 Using transformation matrices to conclude the propagation and accumulation of the geometric deviations.
  • 4.4 Assemblability evaluation in different assembly sequences4.5 Case study; 4.6 Summary; References; 5 Advanced assembly planning approach using a multi-objective genetic algorithm; 5.1 Tolerance-based constraint in assembly planning; 5.2 Genetic search directions with fuzzy weights distribution; 5.3 Multi-objective genetic algorithm with multiple search directions; 5.4 Building the fitness function for assembly planning; 5.5 Case study; 5.6 Summary; References; 6 Evaluation of assembly design from assembly planning and redesign.
  • 6.1 The design problems identified from the assembly planning results6.2 The overall redesign guidelines from the assembly planning results; 6.3 Summary; Reference; 7 Collaborative assembly planning; 7.1 System framework and working mechanism; 7.2 The workflow of collaborative assembly planning; 7.3 Case study; 7.4 Summary; References; 8 Conclusions and recommendations; 8.1 Conclusions; 8.2 Recommendations for future works; Index.

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