Integrated Manufacturing Features An
Computers & Industrial Engineering 66 (2013) 988–1003 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers & Industrial Engineering journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/caie Integrated manufacturing features and Design-for-manufacture guidelines for reducing product cost under CAD/CAM environment q ⇑ A.S.M. Hoque a, , P.K. Halder a, M.S. Parvez a, T. Szecsi b a Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Jessore Science and Technology University, Jessore-7408, Bangladesh b School of Mechanical and manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland article info abstract Article history: The main contribution of the work is to develop an intelligent system for manufacturing features in the Received 22 September 2012 area of CAD/CAM. It brings the design and manufacturing phase together in design stage and provides an Received in revised form 30 May 2013 intelligent interface between design and manufacturing data by developing a library of features. The Accepted 20 August 2013 library is called manufacturing feature library which is linked with commercial CAD/CAM software pack- Available online 28 August 2013 age named Creo Elements/Pro by toolkit. Inside the library, manufacturing features are organised hierar- chically. A systematic database system also have been developed and analysed for each feature consists of Keywords: parameterised geometry, manufacturing information (including machine tool, cutting tools, cutting con- Design-for-manufacture ditions, cutting fluids and recommended tolerances and surface finishing values, etc.), design limitations, Manufacturing feature library Design functionality functionality guidelines, and Design-for-manufacture guidelines. The approach has been applied in two case studies in which a rotational part (shaft) and a non-rotational part are designed through manufac- turing features.
[Show full text]