An assembly oriented design and optimization approach for mechatronic system engineering

Abstract

-Today, companies involved in product development in the ''Industry 4.0'' era, need to manage all the necessary information required in the product entire lifecycle, in order to optimize as much as possible the product-process integration. In this paper, a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach is proposed, in order to facilitate product-process information exchange, by considering design constraints and rules coming from DFMA (Design For Manufacturing and Assembly) guidelines. Indeed, anticipating these manufacturing and assembly constraints in product design process, reduces both costs and Time To Market (TTM), and avoids to repeat mistakes. The paper details the application of multi-objective optimization algorithms after considering DFMA constraints in a PLM approach. A case study using an original mechatronic system concept is presented, and improved by considering product-process integrated design, optimization and simulation loops, using numerical optimization and FEM (Finite Element Method) methods and tools.

Organizing the fragmented landscape of multidisciplinary product development: a mapping of approaches, processes, methods and tools from the scientific literature

“…In a work likely related to the Eco-design approach, Favi et al (2019) propose to make use of Design for Disassembly (DfD) for mechatronic products applied through rules and guidelines. Design for X guidelines are suggested by some authors to support mechatronic product development, while Marconnet et al (2017) propose using Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA). Kiran et al (2011) deploy in a concurrent engineering manner eight Design for X "abilities": Design for Integration, Design for Miniaturization, Design for Manufacturing (DfM), Design for Assembly (DfA), Design for Intelligence, Design for Environment (DfE), Design for Reliability, and Design for Quality.…”

Development of an advanced MES for the simulation and optimization of industry 4.0 process

“…The planning phase of production operations is a crucial technical aspect which requires knowing, on the one hand, the production capacity of the production machines, this parameter is classic and not very variable, and on the other hand, to know the way in which the production operations are constituted and structured, this parameter is recent and was introduced recently by various works published in 2019 [10,11] by Prof. Urbas from TUD 1 University.…”

“…Today, companies involved in product development in the era of "Industry 4.0" must manage all the necessary information across the product lifecycle, in order to maximize the product-process integration [1]. To this end, new manufacturing systems are able to use advanced functionality to respond to customer demands on time.…”

Project Lifecycle Management (PLM): evolution and state of the art

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