Methods and Tools for Co-Operative and Integrated Design

. Ed(s): Tichkiewitch, Serge; Brissaud, Daniel

ISBN 10: 1402018894 / ISBN 13: 9781402018893

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

About this Item

Focuses on methods and tools for collaborative and integrated design. This book presents aspects related to the field, and contains 40 papers presented at the CIRP Design Seminar held in Grenoble, France, in May 2003. It is intended for engineers, researchers, academic staff, and postgraduate students interested in integrated design. Editor(s): Tichkiewitch, Serge; Brissaud, Daniel. Num Pages: 488 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 879. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Methods and Tools for Co-Operative and Integrated Design
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402018894
• ISBN 13: 9781402018893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

SMC COLOMBIER FONTAINE is a company in the AFE METAL group, which uses a sand casting process to manufacture steel primary parts. To reduce the "time to market", primary part producers need to reduce the time and cost of the industrialisation process. These factors, in addition to the global goal of improving process performance levels, brought SMC to develop numerical technologies and traceability from quotation to part delivery [1]. Nowadays, these improvements are incorporated into company culture. The next step in reducing the time and cost of the production process is to introduce a complete methodology of use and experience feedback of these new models and methods. To be able to generalise this approach, a CAD methodology is essential and thus becomes a step in the industrialisation process. The amount of improvements engendered by the numerical technologies largely justifies the time investment made to obtain a numerical definition of all the different elements in the sand casting process [2]. The objective of our approach is to optimise the product and its production process by generating a complete numerical reference, through the integration of quotation, CAD, simulation, new manufacturing technologies and effective production processes.