Product coding assembly/disassembly tree for product evaluation

Author

Mok, Swee M. ; Wu, Chi-Haur

Author_Institution

Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

259

Abstract

The impact of product design on manufacturing cost is significant. A product that is difficult to assemble increases its production cost. An accurate process for identifying problematic parts before they are released for manufacturing is needed. In this paper, we present a method for generating structured product coding system (SPCS) product assembly tree. The SPCS is part of an integrated design-to-manufacturing system for analyzing and calculating products´ manufacturing cost in a virtual environment. It models assembly and disassembly operations of both parts and tools used in manufacturing a product. By using the system, a product designer is able to estimate the impact of every part used for building a product before production.

Keywords

costing; design for disassembly; design for manufacture; product design; production engineering computing; trees (mathematics); integrated design-to-manufacturing system; manufacturing cost; product assembly tree; product coding assembly; product coding disassembly; product design; product evaluation; virtual environment; Assembly systems; Binary trees; Costs; Databases; Electrical capacitance tomography; Grippers; Manufacturing; Product design; Production; Robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, 2004 IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8645-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAMECH.2004.1438927

Filename

1438927