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Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Del Chambre
    Pages 1-17
  3. State of the Art

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 19-83
  4. Product Family and Assembly Line Design Methodology

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 85-104
  5. Description of Product Families

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 105-128
  6. Product Family Structuring and Preliminary Design for Assembly

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 129-149
  7. Representation of Assembly Plans for Product Families

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 151-155
  8. Preliminary Assembly Planning

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 157-197
  9. Detailed Design for Assembly and Assembly Planning

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 199-224
  10. Line Layout

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 225-248
  11. Conclusions and Further Work

    • Pierre De Lit, Alain Delchambre
    Pages 249-255
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 257-281

About this book

Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System presents an integrated approach for the design of a product family and its assembly system, whose main principles consider the product family as a fictitious unique product for which the assembly system is to be devised. It imposes assembly and operation constraints as late as possible in the design process to get liberties in the system design, and adapts the product family at each design stage to integrate the new constraints related to the successive design choices.

Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System is an important, must-have book for researchers and Ph.D. students in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing, as well as practitioners in the Design, Planning and Production departments in the manufacturing industry. Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System is also suitable for use as a textbook in courses such as Computer-Aided Design, Concurrent Engineering, Design for Assembly, Process Planning, and Integrated Design.

Authors and Affiliations

  • CAD/CAM Department, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Pierre Lit, Alain Delchambre

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