
Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing
Toward Intelligent Manufacturing
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. November 1998
Book
Hardback
XV, 374 pages
978-0-7923-8338-3 (ISBN)
Description
Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process. The design process in most industries is an evolutionary one (i.e., incremental changes to some existing design). DE is a manufacturing process that seeks to improve the design processes by providing complete archival documentation of existing designs. It uses three-dimensional geometric models with integrated manufacturing information throughout the design process. DE reduces the design cycle, and the variety and number of engineering changes. This process decreases the design cycle time, increases productivity, and provides a higher quality product.
The required technologies and methodologies that will support the development of the DE environment are: (1) product representation using feature-based modeling; (2) knowledge-based applications that will support the entire product development cycle; (3) an engineering environment implemented around distributed computing and object-oriented systems; (4) direct manufacturing techniques using rapid prototyping.
Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing addresses the following recent topics related to the development, implementation, and integration of the DE environment: (1) the current scope of the research in intelligent manufacturing; (2) the results of the technologies and tools developed for integrated product and process designs, and (3) examination of the methodologies and algorithms used for the implementation of direct engineering.
The required technologies and methodologies that will support the development of the DE environment are: (1) product representation using feature-based modeling; (2) knowledge-based applications that will support the entire product development cycle; (3) an engineering environment implemented around distributed computing and object-oriented systems; (4) direct manufacturing techniques using rapid prototyping.
Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing addresses the following recent topics related to the development, implementation, and integration of the DE environment: (1) the current scope of the research in intelligent manufacturing; (2) the results of the technologies and tools developed for integrated product and process designs, and (3) examination of the methodologies and algorithms used for the implementation of direct engineering.
More details
Edition
1999 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XV, 374 p.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-8338-3 (9780792383383)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-4941-3
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
1. The Origin and Future of Direct Engineering.- Section I Feature-Based and Constraint-Based Design.- 2. Volumetric Feature Recognition for Direct Engineering.- 3. Variant Constraint Satisfaction: Associativity in Product Realization.- 4. Rapid Manufacturability Assessment with Feature-Based Process Flow Charts.- Section II Knowledge-Based Engineering and Design for Manufacture.- 5. Manufacturing Analysis of Machined Parts.- 6. Feature-Based Process Planning for Direct Engineering.- 7. KAMPLAN: A Template-Based System for Variant Process Planning of Engine Crankshafts.- Section III Manufacturing Integration.- 8. PDES-STEP Standards: A Question.- 9. STEP Standards in Design and Manufacturing.- Section IV Rapid Part Manufacturing.- 10. Free Form Fabrication-Process Overview.- 11. A Framework for Part Placement in a Rapid Prototyping Process.- Project Management and Team Organization: Chapter 12. Integrated Team Organization.