Integrated Approach For Improving Product Design
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2002-01
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Assembly is one of the most important stages of product development. Design for
assembly (DF A) is a recent approach towards improving product designs for easier and
less costly assembly operations. The main objective of the research work is to develop an
improved DFA system. The system is supposed to support new techniques for design for
assembly and to provide users opportunity to assess and reduce the total production cost by
means of reducing assembly time and cost at the early stage of the design process. The
system is expected to enable designers to minimize the number of components of a product
without compromising the product functions. To accomplish such a crucial task, two most
current DF A methodologies are reviewed in the current research work towards developing
a framework for design for assemblability analysis. The scope of the work includes
systematizing the assemblability analysis for a product through generic sequence of design
activities with rational basis. The inherent knowledge of the DF A rules and principles areĀ·
used in a systematic way throughout the assemblability analysis. The software 'PROPT'
has been developed in this research work for the convenience of the designers. The
software could facilitate quick result with best accuracy to be obtained and to preserve the
design data for future reference. Two case studies have been performed using the software
to illustrate the proposed method with a view to determine its effectiveness in actual
application.
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Integrated Approach , For Improving Product Design