Integrated design of a product family and its assembly system

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De Lit, Pierre, 1973-

Publication Information:

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

ISBN:

9781402074370

Subject Term:

Engineering design

Manufacturing processes

Added Author:

Delchambre, Alain

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Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System presents an integrated approach for the design of a product family and its assembly system, whose main principles consider the product family as a fictitious unique product for which the assembly system is to be devised. It imposes assembly and operation constraints as late as possible in the design process to get liberties in the system design, and adapts the product family at each design stage to integrate the new constraints related to the successive design choices.

Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System is an important, must-have book for researchers and Ph.D. students in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing, as well as practitioners in the Design, Planning and Production departments in the manufacturing industry. Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System is also suitable for use as a textbook in courses such as Computer-Aided Design, Concurrent Engineering, Design for Assembly, Process Planning, and Integrated Design.

Author Notes

Pierre De Lit: Universite libre de Bruxelles
Alain Delchambre: Universite libre de Bruxelles

1. Introduction	p. 1
1 Assembly	p. 1
1.1 What is assembly?	p. 1
1.2 Assembly methods	p. 2
1.3 Assembly operations	p. 2
2 Assembly lines	p. 6
2.1 Principle	p. 6
2.2 Line models	p. 7
3 Product and assembly line design	p. 8
3.1 Design decomposition	p. 8
3.2 Influences and interactions	p. 10
4 Scope of the book	p. 11
5 One typical case study	p. 13
6 Disposition	p. 15
2. State of the Art	p. 19
1 PF and assembly line design	p. 19
1.1 Design methodologies	p. 19
1.2 Integrated design approaches	p. 20
2 Pf representation	p. 29
2.1 Terminology	p. 29
2.2 PF structure	p. 32
2.3 Discussion	p. 45
3 Design for assembly	p. 48
3.1 Qualitative analyses	p. 48
3.2 Quantitative analyses	p. 48
3.3 DFA in integrated product and line design	p. 51
3.4 Discussion	p. 55
4 Ap representations	p. 57
4.1 Preliminary definitions	p. 58
4.2 Liaison- or command-based representations	p. 58
4.3 Component- and subset- based representations	p. 63
4.4 Discussion	p. 69
5 Assembly planning	p. 71
5.1 Quick browse	p. 71
5.2 PG generation	p. 72
5.3 Proposing SAs	p. 79
6 Line design	p. 80
6.1 Line design methods and algorithms	p. 80
6.2 Mhe selection	p. 82
3. Pf and Assembly Line Design Methodology	p. 85
1 Concurrent engineering and assembly	p. 85
2 Concurrent design and "optimisation" problems	p. 87
2.1 Industrial, multi-objective problems and optimisation	p. 88
2.2 Solution stability and iterative procedures	p. 89
2.3 Concurrent development and design sensitivity	p. 90
2.4 Design choices and solution space pruning	p. 92
2.5 Preliminary conclusions	p. 94
3 Proposed design philosophy for PFs and assembly lines	p. 94
3.1 Main principles	p. 95
3.2 PF structuring, DFA and preliminary AP	p. 95
3.3 Assembly technique and mode selection, detailed AP	p. 98
3.4 Line layout	p. 101
4 Conclusions	p. 103
4. Description of Product Families	p. 105
1 Proposed PF structure representation	p. 105
1.1 Preliminary definitions	p. 105
1.2 Generic and variant elements	p. 109
1.3 Decomposition of a PF into FEns	p. 111
1.4 Links between the FEns	p. 117
1.5 Description of a FEn	p. 118
1.6 Description of the GCs	p. 118
1.7 Description of the generic links	p. 120
1.8 Graphical representations	p. 121
1.9 Fens and design teams	p. 122
1.10 Synthesis of the model	p. 122
2 Illustrative case study	p. 123
2.1 Early design	p. 123
2.2 Intermediate design	p. 124
2.3 Detailed design	p. 126
3 Conclusions	p. 128
5. Pf Structuring and Preliminary Dfa	p. 129
1 Objectives of the DFA	p. 129
2 Proposed structuring and preliminary DFA issues	p. 130
2.1 How to obtain variations in the subfunctions of a PF?	p. 131
2.2 Issues for VGCs, OGCs and pseudo-varying links	p. 133
2.3 PF structuring and standardisation	p. 135
2.4 Preliminary DFA rules	p. 140
2.5 Summary of the approach	p. 142
3 Case study	p. 144
3.1 Before the application of the DFA	p. 144
3.2 Application of the DFA	p. 146
4 Conclusions	p. 148
6. Representation of APS for PFS	p. 151
1 Proposed AP representation	p. 151
2 Examples	p. 153
3 Conclusions	p. 155
7. Preliminary Assembly Planning	p. 157
1 Hypotheses on the APS	p. 157
2 Proposed preliminary AP tool	p. 158
2.1 AP methodology	p. 158
2.2 Constraints in the AP generation	p. 159
2.3 Dealing with PCS	p. 160
2.4 Determination of potential base parts	p. 164
2.5 Proposing GSAS	p. 168
2.6 Constructing the PGS for FEns	p. 170
2.7 Merging the APS of FEns into APS for the PF	p. 183
2.8 AP evaluation criteria	p. 189
3 Case study	p. 193
3.1 AP at early design stage	p. 193
3.2 AP after the preliminary design of MagSyst and Box	p. 194
3.3 AP after the preliminary design for the PF	p. 195
4 Conclusions	p. 196
8. Detailed DFA and AP	p. 199
1 A detailed DFA principle for PFS: standardisation	p. 199
2 Joining process and assembly method selection	p. 200
3 Detailed AP of the Fens	p. 201
3.1 Modification of the generic liaison graph	p. 201
3.2 Modification of the AP of the FEns	p. 203
3.3 AP and DFA: releasing PCS	p. 208
3.4 Modification of the AP for the PF	p. 209
3.5 From a PG between GCS to a PG between operations	p. 212
4 Equipment preselection	p. 212
4.1 Decomposing the operations	p. 212
4.2 Selecting the equipment	p. 216
4.3 Finalising the PF design and the AP	p. 217
5 Case study	p. 218
5.1 Design not challenging preliminary results	p. 218
5.2 Design questioning former results	p. 221
5.3 Comparison	p. 223
6 Conclusions	p. 224
9. Line Layout	p. 225
1 Line decomposition	p. 226
1.1 Team-oriented assembly	p. 226
1.2 Defining and linking workcentres	p. 226
2 Determination of the conveying system	p. 228
2.1 Conveyor selection in the proposed methodology	p. 229
2.2 Selection methodology	p. 229
2.3 MHE typology and evaluation criteria	p. 229
2.4 Examples	p. 232
3 Logical layout	p. 234
3.1 Essentials on the LB and RP approaches	p. 235
3.2 Whole thing in a nutshell	p. 240
4 Differences between logical and physical layout	p. 241
5 Case study	p. 244
5.1 Old design	p. 244
5.2 New design	p. 245
6 Conclusions	p. 246
10. Conclusions and Further Work	p. 249
1 Summary of the results and discussion	p. 249
2 Further research	p. 254
Appendices	p. 257
Appendix A Precedence operators	p. 257
1 Operator [precedes equals]	p. 257
2 Operator [precedes]	p. 258
Appendix B The Promethee II method	p. 259
Appendix C Glossary	p. 263
References	p. 265
Index	p. 279

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