FlexPlace: watchmaker precision for robotic placement of automobile body parts

Author(s):  
Marie‐Pierre Picard
Keyword(s):  
2020 ◽  
Vol 312 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Achim Kampker ◽  
Johannes Triebs ◽  
Jan Ole Hansen

Due to shorter product life-cycles, increasing product customization and the co-existence of electric and combustion engine vehicles, variant flexibility is gaining importance in the automobile production. The automobile body shop is characterized by inflexible, rigid fixture systems dedicated to meet the geometrical requirements of specific body parts. Changes in part geometry or dimension require the development of new fixture systems, thus increasing product variety results in higher fixture costs. This paper presents an approach for a fixtureless body shop based on component-integrated fixture-functions, increasing variant flexibility and reducing fixture costs. The approach is implemented using a body part assembly of an electric vehicle.


2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Joshi ◽  
Debasish Dutta

Freeform surface models are conventionally used to model sheet metal components, such as automobile body parts. Finite element meshes generated automatically for such models have poor quality around small detailed features. Manual correction of the mesh is extremely tedious. An approach presently receiving attention in industry aims to alleviate this problem by automatically simplifying these features in the surface model such that an acceptable mesh is automatically generated. Simplification involves recognition of the feature and modification of its geometry or complete suppression of the feature. Since features such as holes, notches, etc. are punched after the basic shape has been formed, such a simplification will also help in the modelling of forming dies and molds. The ability to detect features will also allow part comparison and classification in surface models. This paper proposes techniques to directly query the CAD data structure to recognize and suppress two basic features, viz. holes and fillets in freeform surface models. It further demonstrates how these techniques can be extended to suppress compound features that are composed of a combination of basic features. Results of a software implementation for the same are discussed with suitable examples and the improvement in mesh quality is demonstrated.


1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Sano ◽  
Yukiyasu Shiroi ◽  
Yoshimitsu Fukui ◽  
Shigeru Usuda

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Achim Kampker ◽  
Georg Bergweiler ◽  
Marian Bichler ◽  
Jan Ole Hansen ◽  
Tobias Christian Paulus ◽  
...  

The increasing variety of models with simultaneously lower and more volatile quantities in the demanding environment of automotive engineering calls for flexible production systems. Considering an automobile production process, the body shop can be characterized as particularly inflexible. This results from highly product-specific and automated technical solutions such as rigid fixture systems and grippers, commonly used to fulfil the demanding geometrical requirements of body parts and the respective production system. Therefore, several approaches have been developed to increase the body production flexibility. This paper presents a three-step methodology to identify promising flexibilization approaches for each area of body production, comparing the flexibility needs of the area with the flexibility offers of specific flexibilization approaches. The outcome of this methodology enables body production planners to derive in which flexibilization approaches to invest and which approaches to discard.


2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trent A. Petrie ◽  
Margaret M. Tripp ◽  
Pejcharat Harvey

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  

Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer in which mostly damaged unpaired DNA starts mutating abnormally and staged an unprecedented proliferation of epithelial skin to form a malignant tumor. In epidemics of skin, pigment-forming melanocytes of basal cells start depleting and form uneven black or brown moles. Melanoma can further spread all over the body parts and could become hard to detect. In USA Melanoma kills an estimated 10,130 people annually. This challenge can be succumbed by using the certain anti-cancer drug. In this study design, cyclophosphamide were used as a model drug. But it has own limitation like mild to moderate use may cause severe cytopenia, hemorrhagic cystitis, neutropenia, alopecia and GI disturbance. This is a promising challenge, which is caused due to the increasing in plasma drug concentration above therapeutic level and due to no rate limiting steps involved in formulation design. In this study, we tried to modify drug release up to threefold and extended the release of drug by preparing and designing niosome based topical gel. In the presence of Dichloromethane, Span60 and cholesterol, the initial niosomes were prepared using vacuum evaporator. The optimum percentage drug entrapment efficacy, zeta potential, particle size was found to be 72.16%, 6.19mV, 1.67µm.Prepared niosomes were further characterized using TEM analyzer. The optimum batch of niosomes was selected and incorporated into topical gel preparation. Cold inversion method and Poloxamer -188 and HPMC as core polymers, were used to prepare cyclophosphamide niosome based topical gel. The formula was designed using Design expert 7.0.0 software and Box-Behnken Design model was selected. Almost all the evaluation parameters were studied and reported. The MTT shows good % cell growth inhibition by prepared niosome based gel against of A375 cell line. The drug release was extended up to 20th hours. Further as per ICH Q1A (R2), guideline 6 month stability studies were performed. The results were satisfactory and indicating a good formulation approach design was achieved for Melanoma treatment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Cita Mustika Kusumah

This research aims to describe and give an overview of the use of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop lyric songs to avoid taboo words which are usually unfreely to mention in public. The researcher uses qualitative method and descriptive method to analyze the data. The researcher uses forty songs consist of twenty pop songs and twenty hip hop songs to be analysed. From forty songs, the researcher finds ninety seven data. Researcher believes the data are found to contain sexual euphemism in the utterance that included in pragmatic study.Researcher describes and analyzes every single of data that are included the theory of Allan and Buridge (1991). From the research data, the researcher found that there is a differential usage of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop which is sexual euphemism in sexual activity appears more frequently in pop songs and sexual euphemism in sexual body parts appears more frequently in hip hop songs. Both pop and hip hop songs use representative speech act more frequently than directive speech act. Euphemism was used in the lyrics to avoid words that are considered taboo in some communities.Keywords: speech act, sexual euphemismINTRODUCTIONIn


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