Abstract
A system for evaluating products in their design phase has been developed for virtual manufacturing. It is integrated into a CAD/CAM environment to calculate cost for assembling and disassembling parts. In our earlier work, a generic assembly and disassembly model was developed to represent operations required for product manufacturing and de-manufacturing. To be useful, the model requires a method for translating high-level instructions from product designers into low-level assembly and disassembly instructions. This paper presents a set of rules for accomplishing this task. The developed rules are used for manipulating strings representing parts and handlers in binary assembly and disassembly operations. A telephone assembly and disassembly simulation is used to illustrate the developed system.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 223-232 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans. |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2001 |
Funding
Manuscript received January 6, 2000; revised March 19, 2001. This work was supported by the Motorola Center for Telecommunication at Northwestern University. D.T. Lee’s research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR-9731638, and by the National Science Council under Grant NSC-89-2213-E-001-012. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor J. Lee.
Keywords
- Assembly
- CAD/CAM
- Design
- Disassembly
- Modeling
- Virtual manufacturing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Software
- Information Systems
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering