Collaborative Product Assembly Design and Assembly Planning. Methodologies and Applications

✍ Scribed by C. Lu, J.Y.H. Fuh and Y.S. Wong (Auth.)

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Woodhead Publishing in Mechanical Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 design and assembly planning, thereby reducing the development cost and helping manufacturers enhance profit. With increased development in computer technologies and the Internet, the traditional assembly design and assembly planning have evolved around collaborative assembly design and assembly planning to speed up the product development process. Research in this area has attracted much attention in the past decade. Based on research work in the past few years, this book will present several newly-developed methodologies and applications for collaborative assembly design and assembly planning to improve the efficiency of product development in a collaborative design environment.

• Provides practical and realistic solutions to engineering problems
• Methodologies introduced will lead to future commercialisation of systems
• Detailed step-by-step case study examples will illustrate the methodologies and be discussed thoroughly

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i,iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures, tables and lists, Pages xi-xv
Acknowledgements, Page xvii
Preface, Page xix
About the authors, Pages xxi-xxiii
Introduction, Pages 1-7
2 - Literature survey, Pages 9-34
3 - Collaborative assembly design, Pages 35-63
4 - Evaluation of product assemblability in different assembly sequences, Pages 65-105
5 - Advanced assembly planning approach using a multi-objective genetic algorithm, Pages 107-146
6 - Evaluation of assembly design from assembly planning redesign, Pages 147-163
7 - Collaborative assembly planning, Pages 165-182
8 - Conclusions and recommendations, Pages 183-188
Index, Pages 189-196