Computer-Aided Fixture Design: Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Series/55

by Yiming (Kevin) Rong (Editor)

Overview

Illustrates recently developed fixture design and verification technology, focusing on their central role in manufacturing processes. The text uses up-to-date computer technology to minimize costs, increase productivity and assure product quality. It presents advanced data and analysis that is directly applicable to development of comprehensive com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040075746
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/20/1999
Series:	Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	36 MB
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Table of Contents

Fixture-design principle; modular-fixture system; interactive computer-aided fixture design; group-technology-based computer-aided fixture design; automated fixture configuration design; constraint-based fixture assembly modeling and design; geometric analysis for automated modular-fixture design; fixturing accuracy analysis and verification; fixturing surface accessibility analysis; fixturing stiffness and clamping stability verification; fast interference-checking algorithm for automated fixture design; fixture planning and setup planning in CAD/CAM integration.

Editorial Reviews

...detailed and well written....should be a valuable reference work for planning engineers and for research workers.
—The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Publisher

Illustrates recently developed computer-aided fixture design (CAFD) techniques such as the application of computers to edit and modify a fixture design based in a fixture component database, a group technology-based fixture design retrieval system, automated generation of fixture configurations, and advanced analysis and verification of fixture designs. Rong (mechanical engineering, Worchester Polytechnic Institute) and Zhu (mechanical engineering, Beijing Institute of Machinery Industry) also review three generations of CAFD systems, demonstrating their progressive increases in efficiency and their growing need for more sophisticated computer analysis. The book can be used as a textbook for engineering graduate students or as a reference for manufacturing engineers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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". . .detailed and well written. . ..should be a valuable reference work for planning engineers and for research workers."
—-The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

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