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Production engineering
About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.
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TL;DR: Holdex is an implementation designed to deduce the planning, design, tooling, procurement and scheduling information at the component design stage to provide a foundation for enabling industry to manufacture with the least amount of manual interpretation.
Abstract: Component design and tool engineering functions are two sequentially related activities. Many additional benefits may arise if these activities can be effectively integrated together within a central environment. The principal aim of the research described in this paper is to develop a component design and tool engineering Intelligent Knowledge Based System (IKBS), called Holdex to demonstrate such a concept. It is an implementation designed to deduce the planning, design, tooling, procurement and scheduling information at the component design stage. It also assists the component designers in the operation of a Computer Aided Design (Cad) system and leads them towards the rationalisation of resources by encouraging standardisation of designs. A major benefit to arise from the provision of such assistance is to facilitate the tasks of executing the production engineering functions. The range of functions performed by Holdex includes the specification of a set of cutting tools; planning a set of pre-machining requirements; recommendation of the appropriate machine tool and manning level; and the automated design of fixtures. Towards this end, this research aims to provide a foundation for enabling industry to manufacture with the least amount of manual interpretation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors give a survey of the trends towards integrated manufacturing systems and discuss the consequences of the requirements that we all put on industry as workers and consumers, and the manufacturing cell as a solution is discussed, and so are the subsystems necessary in partly unmanned environments.
Abstract: The paper gives a survey of the trends towards integrated manufacturing systems. It discusses the consequences of the requirements that we all put on industry as workers and consumers. Further, the manufacturing cell as a solution is discussed, and so are the subsystems necessary in partly unmanned environments. The descriptions are based on R&D projects at the Production Engineering Laboratory NTH-SINTEF.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The work detailed in this paper relates to early conceptual decisions in the development of assembly systems for large, high-volume products such as cars, trucks and home appliances, such as appliances.
Abstract: The work detailed in this dissertation relates to earlyconceptual decisions in the development of assembly systems forlarge, high-volume products, such as cars, trucks and homeappliances. Historica ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new methodology of computer aided machine tools selection for focused flexibility manufacturing systems based on multi-criterion approach and allowed to select suboptimal sets of machine tools with the right level of flexibility required by the specific production problem.
Abstract: This paper proposes a new methodology of computer aided machine tools selection for focused flexibility manufacturing systems. The methodology is based on multi-criterion approach and allows to select suboptimal sets of machine tools with the right level of flexibility required by the specific production problem. In the selection process, we first consider critical decision criteria which directly decide if a given machine tool is suitable to realize a defined production task and complies with conditions specified by the designer. Furthermore, economic considerations are taken into account in order to find the best solution from the viewpoint of minimization of both investment costs and time of machining. An illustrative example of machine tool selection using the proposed methodology and the software implementation is also provided.
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