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This chapter discusses how assembly operation analysis can be embedded transparently and remotely into a service-oriented collaborative assembly design environment and how the integrated process can help a designer to quickly select robust assembly design and process for rapid manufacturing. A new assembly operation analysis framework, relevant architecture, and tools are introduced. True competitive advantage can only result from the ability to bring highly customized quality products to the market at lower cost and in less time. Product development has become a very complicated process. Many customers are no longer satisfied with mass-produced goods. They are demanding customization and rapid delivery of innovative products. Industries now realize that the best way to reduce life cycle costs is to evolve a more effective product development paradigm using the Internet and web based technologies. Yet there remains a gap between these current market demands and current product development paradigms. The existing CAD systems require that a product developer possess all the design analysis tools in-house making it impractical to employ all the needed and newest tools. Instead of the current sequential process for verifying and validating an assembly design concept, a new Virtual Assembly Analysis (VAA) concept is introduced in this chapter to predict the various effects of joining to realize a rapid manufacturing environment. The predicted effects provide very important decision information to select a robust assembly design and to reduce unnecessary feedback processes on rapid selection of assembly processes.
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Kim, KY., Nnaji, B.O. (2006). Virtual Assembly Analysis Enhancing Rapid Prototyping in Collaborative Product Development. In: Kamrani, A., Nasr, E.A. (eds) Rapid Prototyping. Manufacturing Systems Engineering Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23291-5_6
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