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Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing

Toward Intelligent Manufacturing

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: The Origin and Future of Direct Engineering

  3. Feature-Based and Constraint-Based Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Volumetric Feature Recognition for Direct Engineering

      • Edward J. Bezdek, David C. Thompson, Kristin L. Wood, Richard H. Crawford
      Pages 15-69
    3. Variant Constraint Satisfaction: Associativity in Product Realization

      • Yong-Sang Pae, Richard H. Crawford, Kristin L. Wood
      Pages 71-106
  4. Knowledge-Based Engineering and Design for Manufacture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Manufacturing Analysis of Machined Parts

      • Venkat Allada, Adil Poyraz
      Pages 131-153
    3. Feature-Based Process Planning for Direct Engineering

      • John G. Cherng, Xinyu Shao, Zhenyi Zhao, Weiwen Chen, Yubao Chen
      Pages 155-191
    4. KAMPLAN: A Template-Based System for Variant Process Planning of Engine Crankshafts

      • Ali K. Kamrani, John Handelman, Peter Sferro
      Pages 193-236
  5. Manufacturing Integration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
    2. PDES-STEP Standards: A Question

      • Mark Tocco
      Pages 239-258
    3. Step Standards in Design and Manufacturing

      • John M. Usher
      Pages 259-284
  6. Rapid Part Manufacturing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
    2. Free Form Fabrication-Process Overview

      • Sean O’Reilly
      Pages 287-323
    3. A Framework for Part Placement in a Rapid Prototyping Process

      • Yung-Nien Yang, Geonwook Jeon, Herman R. Leep, Hamid R. Parsaei
      Pages 325-345
    4. Integrated Team Organization

      • Greg J. Burek, David J. Chesney
      Pages 347-371
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 373-374

About this book

Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process. The design process in most industries is an evolutionary one (i.e., incremental changes to some existing design). DE is a manufacturing process that seeks to improve the design processes by providing complete archival documentation of existing designs. It uses three-dimensional geometric models with integrated manufacturing information throughout the design process. DE reduces the design cycle, and the variety and number of engineering changes. This process decreases the design cycle time, increases productivity, and provides a higher quality product.
The required technologies and methodologies that will support the development of the DE environment are: (1) product representation using feature-based modeling; (2) knowledge-based applications that will support the entire product development cycle; (3) an engineering environment implemented around distributed computing and object-oriented systems; (4) direct manufacturing techniques using rapid prototyping.
Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing addresses the following recent topics related to the development, implementation, and integration of the DE environment: (1) the current scope of the research in intelligent manufacturing; (2) the results of the technologies and tools developed for integrated product and process designs, and (3) examination of the methodologies and algorithms used for the implementation of direct engineering.

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