A concurrent manufacturing strategy for One-of-a-Kind Products with complicated sculptured surfaces

Tu, Yiliu; Yang, Wenyu; Xiong, Yan

doi:10.1007/bf01322217

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“…An industrial application of using this data structure to design and manufacture injection moulds with complicated sculpture surfaces can be found in Tu et al (1998). We employed the integrated data structure like the example shown in figure 4 to model the injection mould with a complicated sculpture surface which encapsulates the manufacturing process constraints together with mould geometric data, such as CNC machine axis, tool shape, tool radius, tool path parameters, etc.…”

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“…under a subclass 'Feature' of an artefact class of an injection mould. Using geometric reasoning and computer programming techniques, a manufacturability model was developed and incorporated into a commercial CAD system to automatically check whether a design of a sculpture surface could be machined by a five-axis CNC milling machine (Tu et al 1998). This manufacturability checking model helped the mould manufacturing company to solve the concurrent engineering problem in the complicated injection mould design and manufacture and effectively avoid reworks in the downstream manufacturing process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The research findings presented in this paper are summarized from our industrial research and development projects on rapid tool/die making. These projects have been carried out with the manufacturing companies, which are either tool/die makers or have the tool/die-making shopfloors, in both China (Tu et al 1998(Tu et al , 2000 and New Zealand . After implementing these novel Internet-based and computerized rapid tool/die-making technologies, an electrical manufacturing company in New Zealand has reduced its tool/die-making cycle time by as much as 30% on average .…”

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This paper presents a manufacturing network, which has been developed on the Internet, for rapid tool/die making. This manufacturing network functions like an e-technicalbroker which is able to automatically fill the gap between tool/die users and tool/die makers. This e-manufacturing network is supported by four basic novel computer-aided engineering and Internet communication-management technologies: an Intelligent Searching Agent, a customer interface, an Internet-based and Computer-Aided Design Model, and a global production planning and reasoning platform. Since the customer interface and global production planning and reasoning platform were presented in our previous papers. This paper focuses its discussions on the Intelligent Searching Agent and Internet-based and Computer-aided Design Model. A new agent search method is proposed here. This agent allows users to submit queries through a user interface and provide users with a manufacturing scheme, which includes manufacturability, competitiveness and a CAD drawing of a similar tool/die made in the past by a tool/ die-making company. A novel Internet-based and computer-aided design method is suggested to support the adaptive and concurrent tool/die making process.

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2006

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“…By using the product production structure, all kinds of data associated with an OKP product development will be integrated managed and stored in a common object. Based on this common object, we have developed a number of manufacturability assessment models to automatically check a product design from the manufacturability point of view (Tu et al 1998). II set machining parameters.…”

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Rapid one-of-a-kind product development in a global and virtual manufacturing environment

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Xie

2003

Collaborative Systems for Production Management

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This paper reports a computer software platform for rapid product development in one-of-akind production (OKP) in a global and virtual manufacturing environment. The OKP companies in this paper are understood as product oriented manufacturing companies which adopt a market competitive strategy as so-called engineer to order, i.e. design a product according to customer's requirements. Since this research program has been funded by New Zealand government and the most of manufacturing companies in New Zealand are small and middle sized companies, this research has focused its emphasis on the small and middle sized OKP companies. The typical ones in line with this OKP definition are for instance an injection mould/tool manufacturing company (or shop floor), a customised sheet metal product manufacturing company, or a CNC machining shop floor. To shorten the product development cycle time and reduce the cost at same time in these OKP companies, various computer communication and computer aided engineering and management techniques have been applied. To integrate these computer technologies to achieve a rational use of these technologies, we proposed this computer aided product development platform, which is based on a concept of Prototype based incremental product development. This platform consists of a number of computer models and systems/sub-systems. To illustrate the feasibility of this platform, some industrial implementations are also discussed in this paper. Keywords One-of-a-kind production (OKP), product data management, rapid product development, virtual manufacturing, and worldwide web (WWW).

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Compound Machining Method for OKP Product Development

Xie

2011

Rapid One-of-a-Kind Product Development

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A concurrent manufacturing strategy for One-of-a-Kind Products with complicated sculptured surfaces

Abstract: In this papet; we propose a computer-aided system for concurrently designing and manufacturing a customised or One-@ Kind Production (OKP)

Cited by 11 publications

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Manufacturing network for rapid tool/die making

Manufacturing network for rapid tool/die making

Rapid one-of-a-kind product development in a global and virtual manufacturing environment

Compound Machining Method for OKP Product Development

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