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Addressing design for automated and manual assembly processes,
Assembly Automation and Product Design, Second Edition examines
assembly automation in parallel with product design. The author
enumerates the components, processes, performance, and comparative
economics of several types of automatic assembly systems. He
provides information on equipment such as transfer devices, parts
feeders, feed tracks, placing mechanisms, and robots. Presenting
detailed discussions of product design for assembly, the book
contains over 500 drawings, tables, and equations, and numerous
problems and laboratory experiments that help clarify and reinforce
essential concepts. Highlighting the importance of well-designed
products, the book covers design for manual assembly, high-speed
automatic and robot assembly, and electronics assembly. The new
edition includes the popular Handbook of Feeding and Orienting
Techniques for Small Parts, published at the University of
Massachusetts, as an appendix. This provides more than 100 pages
packed with useful data and information that will help you avoid
the costly errors that often plague high-volume manufacturing
companies. In today's extremely competitive, highly unpredictable
world, your organization needs to constantly find new ways to
deliver value. Performing the same old processes in the same old
ways is no longer a viable option. Taking an analytical yet
practical approach to assembly automation, this completely revised
second edition gives you the skill set you need not only to deliver
that value, but to deliver it economically and on time.
Effective utilization of equipment is critical to any manufacturing
operation, especially with today's sophisticated, high-cost
equipment and increased global competition. To meet these
challenges in the manufacturing industry, you must understand and
implement the myriad conventional and intelligent techniques for
different types of manufacturing problems. Manufacturing
Optimization Through Intelligent Techniques covers design of
machine elements, integrated product development, machining
tolerance allocation, selection of operating parameters for CNC
machine tools, scheduling, part family formation, selection of
robot coordinates, robot trajectory planning and both conventional
and intelligent techniques, providing the tools to design and
implement a suitable optimization technique. The author explores
how to model optimization problems, select suitable techniques,
develop the optimization algorithm and software, and implement the
program. The book delineates five new techniques using examples
taken from the literature for optimization problems in design,
tolerance allocation; selection of machining parameters, integrated
product development, scheduling, concurrent formation of machine
groups and part families, selection of robot co-ordinates, robot
trajectory planning and intelligent machining. All the
manufacturing functions described have been successfully solved by
Genetic Algorithm. Other intelligent techniques have been
implemented only for solving certain types of problems: simulated
annealing; design and scheduling, particle swarm optimization and
ant colony optimization; tolerance allocation and tabu search; as
well as machining parameters optimization. After reading this book,
you will understand the different types of manufacturing
optimization problems as well as the conventional and intelligent
techniques suitable for solving them. You will also be able to
develop and implement effective optimization procedures and
algorithms for a wide variety of problems in design manufacturing.
In the more than 15 years since the second edition of Fundamentals
of Machining and Machine Tools was published, the industry has seen
many changes. Students must keep up with developments in analytical
modeling of machining processes, modern cutting tool materials, and
how these changes affect the economics of machining. With coverage
reflecting state-of-the-art industry practice, Fundamentals of
Machining and Machine Tools, Third Edition emphasizes underlying
concepts, analytical methods, and economic considerations,
requiring only basic mathematics and physics. This book thoroughly
illustrates the causes of various phenomena and their effects on
machining practice. The authors include several descriptions of
modern analytical methods, outlining the strengths and weaknesses
of the various modeling approaches. What's New in the Third
Edition? -Recent advances in super-hard cutting tool materials,
tool geometries, and surface coatings -Advances in high-speed
machining and hard machining -New trends in cutting fluid
applications, including dry and minimum-quantity lubrication
machining -New developments in tool geometries for chip breaking
and chip control -Improvements in cost modeling of machining
processes, including application to grinding processes Supplying
abundant examples, illustrations, and homework problems,
Fundamentals of Machining and Machine Tools, Third Edition is an
ideal textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students
studying metal cutting, machining, machine tool technology,
machining applications, and manufacturing processes.
Hailed as a groundbreaking and important textbook upon its
initial publication, the latest iteration of Product Design for
Manufacture and Assembly does not rest on those laurels. In
addition to the expected updating of data in all chapters, this
third edition has been revised to provide a top-notch textbook for
university-level courses in product design and manufacturing
design. The authors have added a comprehensive set of problems and
student assignments to each chapter, making the new edition
substantially more useful.
See what s in the Third Edition:
- Updated case studies on the application of DFMA techniques
- Extended versions of the classification schemes of the features
of products that influence the difficulty of handling and insertion
for manual, high-speed automatic, and robot assembly
- Discussions of changes in the industry such as increased
emphasis on the use of surface mount devices
- New data on basic manufacturing processes
- Coverage of powder injection molding
Recognized as international experts on the re-engineering of
electro-mechanical products, the methods and guidelines developed
by Boothroyd, Dewhurst, and Knight have been documented to provide
significant savings in the product development process. Often
attributed with creating a revolution in product design, the
authors have been working in product design manufacture and
assembly for more than 25 years. Based on theory yet highly
practical, their text defines the factors that influence the ease
of assembly and manufacture of products for a wide range of the
basic processes used in industry. It demonstrates how to develop
competitive products that are simpler in configuration and easier
to manufacture with reduced overall costs."
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