... and engineering practitioners), who do not possess specialized knowledge in sustainability analysis of product designs and manufacturing processes. The objective of this research is to facilitate the sustainability performance analysis of manufacturing processes and systems through unit manufacturing process (UMP...

... perspective on the origins of the environmental movement and its connection to industrial systems. Then, recent research related to product design, process improvement and change, green manufacturing planning, and the circular economy are described. With respect to product design, topics such as material...

... without the knowledge of the new die face and it is more convenient in the product design stage to quickly estimate the formability of a new part design. Strain prediction on the existing and new parts by FEA The authors greatly acknowledge the support of the work by General Motors...

...W. L. Chan; M. W. Fu; J. Lu In the traditional metal forming product development paradigm, product design is generally based on heuristic know-how and experience, which are basically acquired through many years of practice. This kind of product design paradigm is of more trial-and-error than...

... cold working ductile fracture forming processes hot working metalworking plasticity product design ductile fracture metal forming plasticity Reviews of ductile fracture criteria are provided, for example, in Refs. 1 2 3 . Upsetting is a typical test for determining parameters...

... workpieces are time consuming and iterative at the early stages in the product design. The progressive die design starts with 3D modeling of the part and continues with process sequence planning and strip layout. The strip layout is usually performed manually by experienced progressive die designers...

... are presented to verify the accuracy and the efficiency of the methods. 06 04 2009 08 01 2010 26 03 2010 26 03 2010 flanges product design sheet metal processing virtual manufacturing inverse approach autopanel sheet metal forming In traditional autopanel design...

... automotive components automotive engineering cost reduction fixtures product design sheet metal processing tolerance analysis Rapid changes in the market place have led designers and manufacturers to continuously develop new products to satisfy the demands of more exigent customers. Those...

... developed in this paper is illustrated with the application of scanned 3D shape matching and comparison algorithms in rapid manufacturing of broken parts. 29 07 2005 18 07 2006 production engineering computing design engineering maintenance engineering product design image matching...

.... 185 – 193 . Dewhurst , P. , and Boothroyd , G. , 1988 , “ Early Cost Estimating in Product Design ,” J. Manuf. Syst. 0278-6125 , 7 ( 3 ), pp. 183 – 191 . Jung , J.-Y. , 2002 , “ Manufacturing Cost Estimation for Machined Parts Based on Manufacturing Features ,” J...

...Zhonghui Xu; Ming Liang Both modular product design and reconfigurable manufacturing have a great potential to enhance responsiveness to market changes and to reduce production cost. However, the two issues have thus far mostly been investigated separately, thereby causing possible mismatch between...

...; Revised April 6, 2004. Associate Editor: J. Cao. 28 April 2003 06 April 2004 21 03 2005 containers product design extrusion fatigue mechanical strength shrink fitting stress analysis internal stresses Only compound containers are used today to reduce the high...

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... 2003 27 April 2004 21 03 2005 machine tools laminates adhesive bonding wear resistance product design finite element analysis Profiled Edge Laminae (PEL) tooling is a thick-layer Rapid Tooling (RT) method that was developed by Walczyk and Hardt 1 2 . This RT method...

... techniques for composite products. 18 01 2004 24 10 2004 tolerance analysis fibre reinforced plastics finite element analysis thermal analysis regression analysis product design trees (mathematics) deformation costing optimisation shapes (structures) Composite Dimensional...

... (machine tools) drawing (mechanical) optimisation finite element analysis sheet metal processing expert systems intelligent manufacturing systems product design Finite element modeling has seen rapid development over recent years, resulting in accurate prediction of a large number...

... parameters (feed, speed, depth of cut, etc.) on-line and off-line to substantially increase the machine tool’s performance in terms of part tolerances and surface finish, operation cycle time, etc. Process automation holds the promise of bridging the gap between product design and process planning, while...