Planning process families with a knowledge-based system

Zhang, Linda; Xu, Qianli; Shou, Yongyi

doi:10.1109/ieem.2011.6118229

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“…In accordance with the diversity required by customized products, process family planning involves large volumes of data pertaining to both the product family and the process family to be planned [6]. In addition, process family planning requires complex considerations that are based on information from product diversity and limited manufacturing resources existing on shop floors [7]. Thus, a fundamental issue in the process family planning is the modeling of production processes.…”

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An Additive Manufacturing resource process model for product family design

Lei

Moon

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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Additive Manufacturing (AM) has a profound impact on the mass customization of consumer products. To take advantage of this new manufacturing resource we need to incorporate AM into existing design methodologies. In this paper, we address this need by proposing an AM resource process model for product family design. The proposed model captures the ability of AM to produce arbitrary complex structures with virtually no tooling effort and it makes these powerful properties available to practitioners working in the field of product family design. The proposed resource model is based on topology optimization and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This model produces performance surfaces that can be used to select optimal components for product family design. These optimal components satisfy the product family requirements and address the need for profitability and sustainability.Keywords -Resource process model, additive manufacturing, product family design, topology optimization, finite element analysis 978-1-4799-0986-5/13/$31.00 ©2013 IEEE Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE IEEM

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%