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Intelligent Analysis and Synthesis Tools for Assembly-Oriented Design

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Artificial Intelligence in Design

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Abstract

Designing products for easier assembly is recognized as an important part of “simultaneous engineering”: the process of making products meet functional, manufacturing, quality and cost targets at the early stages of design. Considering the assembly aspects of existing and new products may lead, for example, to the use of simpler robots with fewer tools and grippers, and less costly fixtures, or indeed, to abandoning robots in favour of alternative process equipment.

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  1. School of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 904, Cardiff, CF1 3YH, UK

    D. T. Pham PhD

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Kroll, E., Lenz, E., Wolberg, J.R. (1991). Intelligent Analysis and Synthesis Tools for Assembly-Oriented Design. In: Pham, D.T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design. Artificial Intelligence in Industry Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74354-2_6

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