Rapid Response Manufacturing: Contemporary methodologies, tools and technologies

✍ Scribed by J. Dong (auth.), Jian Dong (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Series 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recently, many new technologies have been developed for engineers to reduce the time required to design and manufacture products in response to rapidly fluctuating market demands. This book addresses a variety of contemporary methodologies, technologies and tools for rapid response manufacturing. The contributions to this volume focus on two major RRM areas: desktop manufacturing and computer and information technologies. Rapid Response Manufacturing is an invaluable resource for research engineers, product design and manufacturing engineers, graduate engineering students, and all those concerned with concurrent engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction to rapid response manufacturing....Pages 1-7
Automated design of a three-dimensionally printed mushroom surface texture....Pages 8-32
Intelligent rapid prototyping....Pages 33-53
Investigation on surface features of rapid prototyping parts....Pages 54-68
Rapid prototyping using fiber-coupled high-power laser diodes....Pages 69-83
Beyond product design data: data standards for manufacturing resources....Pages 84-120
A group technology knowledge-based system for a rapid response manufacturing environment....Pages 121-140
Virtual prototyping in simultaneous product/process design for disassembly....Pages 141-175
Human aspects of rapid response manufacturing....Pages 176-190
CAD/CAM integration: an efficient approach in a fixture design framework....Pages 191-211
Fixtureless NC machining for rapid prototyping....Pages 212-227
Growing autofab into the 21st century....Pages 228-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-239

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design