Methods and Tools for Co-operative and Integrated Design

Tichkiewitch, Serge (Editor)/ Brissaud, Daniel/ Tichkiewitch, Serge/ Brissaud, Daniel (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1402018894 / ISBN 13: 9781402018893

Published by Kluwer Academic Pub, 2003

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1st edition. 504 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Methods and Tools for Co-operative and Integrated Design
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402018894
• ISBN 13: 9781402018893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.03 kilograms

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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.