Production engineering

About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.

A novel approach to measure engineering efficiency of automation projects

Abstract: Engineering is a major cost factor in automation system projects Hence, both industry and academia aim to develop new methods and concepts to increase engineering efficiency However, the verification and comparison of those methods is difficult because the measurement of engineering efficiency is unsolved and is considered to be a possible breakthrough in the domain of engineering This paper proposes an approach to measure engineering efficiency in a systematic, reproducible and comparable way The proposed approach allows a systematic assessment of any new engineering method, tool or concept and hence allows a systematic comparison of alternatives To evaluate the proposed approach, an automatic measurement tool was developed and applied on a benchmark project First results are described and discussed

SNAP-8 power conversion system assessment

Abstract: SNAP-8 systems design criteria, and assessment of major components comprising power conversion system

Elements of Design of Production Systems - Methodology of Machine Tool Selection in Casing-Class FMS

Abstract: Received: 15 December 2009 Abstract Accepted: 25 May 2010 The work presents a new methodology of computer aided FMS machine tools selection. Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are systems which allow manufacturing of parts in small lot sizes, keeping a high level of productivity and low costs of production. Despite the fact that applied research on designing FMS systems has been continued for several years, there are no methodological solutions that can help design engineers to select machine tools for FMS in an optimal way. This article shows the main stages of the methodology which is based on computer database systems, as well as the principles of elimination and optimisation.

Investigation of the workforce effect of an assembly line using multi-objective optimization

Abstract: The aim of industrial production changed from mass production at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, production flexibility determines manufacturing companies' course of action. In th ...

Automated design of fixtures based on FEM simulations

Abstract: With the aim of improving the availability and performance of machine tools, gentelligent® components for machine tools are developed at the Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW), Germany, starting with a fixturing system Being the interface between the machine tool and the workpiece, these systems allow a first evaluation of the potentials of a gentelligent production system This paper presents an approach for the design of the fixturing as a component of a sensing machine tool on the basis of finite elements simulations The fixture design is adapted to the workpiece geometry and properties as well as to the loads resulting from the machining process This is achieved by minimising the deformation of the workpiece and thus increasing the accuracy The method developed comprises five stages: the analysis of fixture elements, the preprocessing of input (G-code), reduction of input data for the sake of computation time, computation of subconfigurations and assessment and comparison of all subconfigurations