Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471554928 ISBN 13: 9780471554929

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques illustrates how to design products, components or systems, across a range of industries, while taking into account such constraints as the ability to manufacture, reliability requirements, quality, cost and customer needs. In long-awaited, much-needed contrast to other books, which focus on a single aspect, such as managing the design process or product reliability, Concurrent Engineering covers all the aspects of the field. This comprehensive analysis includes 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 performed during concurrent engineering design; an intelligent interactive CAD system which has a mechanism for real-time constraint checking in the design process; conceptual design with physical features and an aspect model integration using a metamodel; automated assembly planning, an important integrative issue in concurrent engineering; the three stages of the design process: system design, parameter design and tolerance design and the methodology for simplification of the design process. In the final chapter, the preliminary design of a light utility helicopter is presented as a case study of how concurrent design can be accomplished by applying ten general characteristics of a concurrent engineering process. Figures, photographs, charts and tables are generously provided throughout to clarify the text and an extensive bibliography is provided for extended study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471554928
• ISBN 13: 9780471554929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Kusiak Andrew