EXTRAPOLATION OF DESIGN GUIDELINES DURING THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PHASE: A METHOD TO SUPPORT PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

The work aims at the definition of a design methodology able to drive designers in the definition of product architectures, starting from rough information available at the conceptual design. The methodology identifies design guidelines useful for the development of product architectures optimized for a given target (i.e. assembly, cost). The methodology is based on domains which combine attributes related to a specific aspect of the target. The exploratory application of the methodology was performed to address the equipment installation of a civil aircraft for assembly/installation target.

SiP and Module

Invited Session on HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION ROADMAP - SiP and Module. Outline: ** SiP Packaging Toolbox - Interconnect; Architecture; Footprint; Functional blocks; and ** Challenges and Solutions - Material, assembly, cost, standardization.

Easily fabricated ion source for characterizing mixtures of organic compounds by direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry

The EZ-DART ion source for ambient mass spectrometry, with simplified construction, minimal assembly cost, and versatile sampling capabilities, is described.

Statistical tolerance design to minimize dual-responses of APFA height deviations with tolerance cost-quality loss model

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the statistical tolerancing technique to analyze the dual responses of APFA arm height deviation with respect to next stage of disk assembly process and simultaneously optimize and allocate the required tolerance of the responses onto its components at minimum cost of manufacturing and the quality loss. Design/methodology/approach – The relationships between the dual responses of APFA heights and the geometric dimensions and tolerances of APFA components, and orientation of the assembled part with respect to disk assembly were first defined. The effects of the APFA orientation, and the component tolerances on the distributions and variations of the responses were derived and investigated in terms of resultant product/process performance, quality loss, and the cost of assembly. The tolerance cost-based objective function is then formulated as the combined manufacturing/assembly cost and the quality loss. Direct search method was used to find the best feasible tolerance solutions satisfying the required product performance at minimum cost. Findings – The constructed relationship or transfer functions of the dual responses were probabilistic depending on the orientation of part with respect to the next assembly process. The Monte Carlo simulation is empirically suitable for the computation of the conditional distributions of the responses against the first-order linear approximation of component variances. The proposed solution of tolerance control plan increases the product performances, C pm , from 0.6 to be at least 1. The proposed tolerance allocation plans will reduce the amount of rework currently as high as 5 percent to at most 0.01 percent with minimally increased assembly cost. Practical implications – This proposed methodology to design and allocate component tolerances is suitable and applicable to the APFA assembly process. The derived assembly functions of probabilistic type relating the responses to the process and component characteristics can represent the actual dynamic of assembled part better than a traditional single deterministic function developed under static concept. This presented methodology can be applied to other assembly cases where quality characteristic depends on the part dynamic. Originality/value – This research simultaneously optimized the dual APFA height deviation responses with minimum cost of tolerance and quality loss using two different conditional distributions and transfer functions of the resultant deviations generated from dynamic of APFA with respect to disk.

The Assembly Design of Non-Ball Mills

The purposes of assembly design (DFA) are aimed to rapidly fit certain machine parts together with the final assemble quality guaranteed. This indicates certain measurements are taken in the very initiative stages to achieve the lowest assembly cost, include quantitative analysis of products; products design optimizations and compression of assembly time. To both aspects of products assemblage capabilities and cost reductions, the DFA usually acquires the least numbers of parts also ensures the ease manufacture and assemble of the parts.

Method of Assembly Sequence Planning Based on Simulated Evolution Algorithm

It is important for assemble industry to generate an optimized assembly sequences. In order to solve this problem, firstly an oriented mating graph model is proposed with the related mating matrix. Therefore an improved simulated evolution algorithm is proposed, which can compute an energy function of the assembly cost associated with the assembly sequence deduced by the graph model. The energy function can be optimized iteratively and perturbed occasionally by the simulated evolution until no further change in the energy occurs. Finally, the validity of the method is proved by a typical case.