Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques

by Andrew Kusiak (Editor)

Overview

Presents a top-down approach to the design, development, testing and recyclability of products, components and systems across a wide range of industries. Starting with the desired result and working back through the details, it shows how to produce goods, taking into account the challenges of actual manufacture, what the reliability requirements should be, quality control, associated costs, customer needs and more. Additional features include case studies and team negotiating. Also well-illustrated with figures, photographs, charts and tables and includes an extensive bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471554929
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/12/1993
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Andrew Kusiak is a highly respected authority on advanced manufacturing and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Iowa. He is author of numerous books, including Concurrent Engineering and Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, both published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

Life-Cycle Design of Products: A New Opportunity for ManufacturingEnterprises (L. Alting).

Modeling of Concurrent Engineering Design (K. Ishii).

Automated Analysis Idealization Control (R. Wentorf & M.Shephard).

Concurrent Engineering in Optimal Structural Design (M. Chirehdast,et al.).

Conceptual Design of Mechanisms: A Qualitive Physics Approach (T.Tomiyama, et al.).

An Intelligent Design for Manufacturing System (J. Colton).

Design for Automated Manufacturing (Z. Dong).

Quality by Design (S. Sanchez, et al.).

Quality Engineering and Tolerance Design (K. Kapur).

Design for Reliability (A. Birolini).

Design for Maintainability (M. Klement).

Design for Economics (J. Noble & J. Tanchoco).

Use of an Agent-Based System for Concurrent Mechanical Design (J.Brandon & G. Huang).

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Illustrates how to design products, components or systems, across a wide range of industries, while taking into account such constraints as the ability to manufacture, reliability requirements, quality, cost and customer needs. In-depth treatment of how the consequences of various technical solutions are assessed in all life-cycle phases of a product, automatic idealization control for analysis, intelligent interactive CAD systems with real-time constraint checking, and methodology for simplification of the design process are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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