Integration of Modern Software Tools for Production Design

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devdas Shetty ◽  
Tom Eppes ◽  
Lifeng Chao ◽  
Claudio Campana
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Assembly Design ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Motion Paths ◽  
Comprehensive Manner ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Efficient Manufacturing

Engineers, irrespective of their disciplines, need effective tools to comprehensively design, model, synthesize and analyze the design a product. This is often closely followed by the need to fabricate a working prototype. Engineers need useful methodologies and tools that can be used in preparation for manufacturing. These tools need to effectively analyze assembly & disassembly since a good assembly design makes a product les expensive to service, repair and maintain. A suite of well-integrated tools assists designers to create, simulate and test in a comprehensive manner. Modern software tools can be used at each stage to create conceptual designs, simulate part geometries, analyze key parameters, and generate motion paths for efficient manufacturing. This paper presents a set of comprehensive procedures and tools that can easily be incorporated into product design and manufacturing from early design through analysis. They consider assembly and disassembly factors up to and including the creation of a working prototype. Due to environmental regulations, designers must think about the product life cycle, recycling and reuse aspects from the very beginning. There is a continuing need for more efficient and rapid design processes which can best be driven by better tools and techniques.

Study on Integration Architecture of Product Design and Manufacturing Based on Knowledge Engineering

2012 ◽  
Vol 152-154 ◽  
pp. 1359-1366
Author(s):  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Xiao Wei Xue ◽  
Zhao Lin Li
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Integration Architecture ◽  
Design And Manufacturing

The paper analyses problems existing in integration models of product design and manufacturing in enterprises. Under the theory of product life cycle management (PLM) and via the platform of J2EE, it builds a framework for establishment of integration architecture in product design and manufacturing based on knowledge engineering. The paper gives a detailed introduction to the structure, function characteristics and realization forms of the architecture. On the basis of this, the paper then studies integration methods of the information system based on XML and explores key technologies in the knowledge base plus network safety of the architecture. Finally, the paper emphatically analyzes types of flow of traditional knowledge and digital knowledge in enterprise knowledge management. The proposed architecture has realized close integration of various sectors so that knowledge runs through the whole process of product life cycle. As a result, the architecture can satisfy modern enterprises’ demand for collaborative manufacturing, resource sharing and network integration while supporting knowledge management and technological innovation.

scholarly journals Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Usage in the Development of the 501F Combustion Turbine and Auxiliaries

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Engel ◽  
P. J. Tyler ◽  
L. R. Wood ◽  
D. T. Entenmann
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Conceptual Design Phase ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Reliability And Availability

Westinghouse has been a strong supporter of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) principles during product design and development. This is exemplified by the actions taken during the design of the 501F engine to ensure that high reliability and availability was achieved. By building upon past designs, utilizing those features most beneficial, and improving other areas, a highly reliable product was developed. A full range of RAM tools and techniques were utilized to achieve this result, including reliability allocations, modelling, and effective redesign of critical components. These activities began during the conceptual design phase and will continue throughout the life cycle of these engines until they are decommissioned.

Approximate Product Life Cycle Costing Method for the Conceptual Product Design

CIRP Annals ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 421-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-H. Park ◽  
K.-K. Seo ◽  
D. Wallace ◽  
K.-I. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Product Life

Remanufacturing Research on Recycling Products of Machinery and Equipment Base on ERM

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 1090-1094
Author(s):  
Ying Yin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing

In the product design process，according to the environmentally responsible manufacturing principle to carry out remanufacturing engineering design，to achieve the purpose of reducing the amount of raw materials, energy conservation and protect the environment, remanufacture is a systemic engineering to consider the product life cycle, which can prolong the life of the product, optimize product design, achieve minimum cost of product life-cycle and maximum efficiency and minimum environmental pollution ultimately.

Low-carbon product design for product life cycle

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (10-12) ◽  
pp. 321-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin He ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Shan Huang ◽  
Yan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Product ◽  
Product Life

Tools for Sustainable Product Design: Review and Expectation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingjin Peng ◽  
Arash Hosseinpour ◽  
Peihua Gu ◽  
Zhun Fan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Structural Formation ◽  
Sustainable Product

Sustainable product design plans the entire life cycle of a product from its raw material selection, conceptual and structural formation, manufacturing processing, and usage to its end-of-life, reuse, and recycle. The product design needs the sustainable knowledge and proper tools. Current computer-aided design systems are insufficient to represent complex relationships of product functions, structures and life cycle options. It is required for design tools to support product life cycle planning with multi-objective optimal solutions. In this paper, our experience in design of a wheelchair is used as an example to discuss the need of design tools. The aim is to define ideal tools for design of sustainable products.

Virtual engineering: Methods and tools

2005 ◽  
Vol 219 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virtual Engineering ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Short Time

This paper presents an overview of actual approaches in virtual engineering, mainly from the design point of view. The evolution of the market has necessitated the reduction of time-to-market, essentially because the product life cycle is shorter, but also because it is very important to proceed more rapidly from an initial conception to a mass production object. As a result of newly evolved software DOI: environments, knowledge-based systems, and product data management, processes for integrated design and manufacturing for new products have emerged. Owing to this evolution of virtual engineering technologies, it has become possible today to validate parts representative of mass production within a very short time. This paper provides an overview of the actual methods and tools in all the components that affect the speed and efficiency of product development, in particular all the possibilities available to the designer, from the earliest stages of a product's life cycle.

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