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Towards formalization of assembly knowledge for product and assembly trade-off analysis
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Abstract
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| The Product-Assembly Co-Design (PACo) project aims at bridging the gap between product design and assembly system design by front-loading of assembly knowledge into the early stages of the product development. Currently, most companies consider assembly aspects later in the design process, often in a manual way, solely relying on the experi- ence of assembly engineers. This leads to numerous design changes caus- ing signicant extra costs. PACo user companies expect that applying these co-design methods and tools will lead to improved designs, internal cost reduction (up to 25%), and will allow them to strengthen their mar- ket position and keep their production. One of the innovative goals of this project is a software environment for the formalization of assembly knowledge e.g. Design-for-Assembly (DFA) rules, assembly complexity metrics. This paper presents a general overview of the project and is specically focused on the formalization of assembly knowledge, in the scope of workpackage 3 of the project. The goal of this workpackage is the development of a platform for the formalization and quantication of assembly knowledge such as product and assembly designs as well as DFA rules and assembly complexity metrics. This platform will trans- form the qualitative denitions of such rules and metrics into a mathe- matical form, allowing an objective comparison and ranking of dierent conceptual designs with respect to assembly complexity. Based on this platform, a framework will be developed for the co-design of the product and its assembly system in a semi-automated workflow. |
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Language
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English
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CEUR workshop proceedings
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STAF 2019 co-located events proceedings : JRCE, MDE@DeRun and RPS, July 15-19, 2019, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Publication
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2019
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2405
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, p. 55-60
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Full text (open access)
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