Overview

The last two decades of the 20th century have witnessed important shifts in customers' behaviour. Companies now need to integrate customers in their strategies and manufacturers have to propose a large variety of products to meet the market's demand. Increasing the range of PVs attracts and retains customers, yet it dramatically augments the cost and complexity of the manufacturing systems. As many decisions taken at the design stage of the product are decisive for its entire life, it is crucial to integrate the process and the assembly system when designing the product. This text presents an integrated approach for the design of a product family and its assembly system, whose main principles consider the product family as a fictitious unique product for which the assembly system is to be devised. It imposes assembly and operation constraints as late as possible in the design process to get liberties in the system design, and adapts the product family at each design stage to integrate the new constraints related to the successive design choices.

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Author:   Pierre De Lit ,  Alain Delchambre
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9781402074370

ISBN 10:   1402074379
Pages:   281
Publication Date:   30 June 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1 Assembly.- 2 Assembly lines.- 3 Product and assembly line design.- 4 Scope of the book.- 5 One typical case study.- 6 Disposition.- 2. State of the Art.- 1 PF and assembly line design.- 2 PF representation.- 3 Design for assembly.- 4 AP representations.- 5 Assembly planning.- 6 Line design.- 3. PF And Assembly Line Design Methodology.- 1 Concurrent engineering and assembly.- 2 Concurrent design and “optimisation” problems.- 3 Proposed design philosophy for PFS and assembly lines.- 4 Conclusions.- 4. Description of Product Families.- 1 Proposed PF structure representation.- 2 Illustrative case study.- 3 Conclusions.- 5. PF Structuring and Preliminary DFA.- 1 Objectives of the DFA.- 2 Proposed structuring and preliminary DFA issues.- 3 Case study.- 4 Conclusions.- 6. Representation of APs for PFs.- 1 Proposed AP representation.- 2 Examples.- 3 Conclusions.- 7. Preliminary Assembly Planning.- 1 Hypotheses on the APS.- 2 Proposed preliminary AP tool.- 3 Case study.- 4 Conclusions.- 8. Detailed DFA and AP.- 1 A detailed DFA principle for PFS: standardisation.- 2 Joining process and assembly method selection.- 3 Detailed AP of the FEns.- 4 Equipment preselection.- 5 Case study.- 6 Conclusions.- 9. Line Layout.- 1 Line decomposition.- 2 Determination of the conveying system.- 3 Logical layout.- 4 Differences between logical and physical layout.- 5 Case study.- 6 Conclusions.- 10. Conclusions and Further Work.- 1 Summary of the results and discussion.- 2 Further research.- Appendices.- Appendix A Precedence operators.- 2 Operator ?.- Appendix B The PROMETHEE II method.- Appendix C Glossary.- References.

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