31 research outputs found
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for New Materials and Components
"Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for Materials and Components presents current and emerging techniques for machining of new materials and restoration of components, as well as surface engineering methods aimed at prolonging the life of industrial systems. It examines contemporary machining processes for new materials, methods of protection and restoration of components, and smart machining processes.
• Details a variety of advanced machining processes, new materials joining techniques, and methods to increase machining accuracy
• Presents innovative methods for protection and restoration of components primarily from the perspective of remanufacturing and protective surface engineering
• Discusses smart machining processes, including computer-integrated manufacturing and rapid prototyping, and smart materials
• Provides a comprehensive summary of state-of-the-art in every section and a description of manufacturing methods
• Describes the applications in recovery and enhancing purposes and identifies contemporary trends in industrial practice, emphasizing resource savings and performance prolongation for components and engineering systems
The book is aimed at a range of readers, including graduate-level students, researchers, and engineers in mechanical, materials, and manufacturing engineering, especially those focused on resource savings, renovation, and failure prevention of components in engineering systems.
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for New Materials and Components
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for Materials and Components presents current and emerging techniques for machining of new materials and restoration of components, as well as surface engineering methods aimed at prolonging the life of industrial systems. It examines contemporary machining processes for new materials, methods of protection and restoration of components, and smart machining processes. • Details a variety of advanced machining processes, new materials joining techniques, and methods to increase machining accuracy • Presents innovative methods for protection and restoration of components primarily from the perspective of remanufacturing and protective surface engineering • Discusses smart machining processes, including computer-integrated manufacturing and rapid prototyping, and smart materials • Provides a comprehensive summary of state-of-the-art in every section and a description of manufacturing methods • Describes the applications in recovery and enhancing purposes and identifies contemporary trends in industrial practice, emphasizing resource savings and performance prolongation for components and engineering systems The book is aimed at a range of readers, including graduate-level students, researchers, and engineers in mechanical, materials, and manufacturing engineering, especially those focused on resource savings, renovation, and failure prevention of components in engineering systems
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for New Materials and Components
"Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for Materials and Components presents current and emerging techniques for machining of new materials and restoration of components, as well as surface engineering methods aimed at prolonging the life of industrial systems. It examines contemporary machining processes for new materials, methods of protection and restoration of components, and smart machining processes.
• Details a variety of advanced machining processes, new materials joining techniques, and methods to increase machining accuracy
• Presents innovative methods for protection and restoration of components primarily from the perspective of remanufacturing and protective surface engineering
• Discusses smart machining processes, including computer-integrated manufacturing and rapid prototyping, and smart materials
• Provides a comprehensive summary of state-of-the-art in every section and a description of manufacturing methods
• Describes the applications in recovery and enhancing purposes and identifies contemporary trends in industrial practice, emphasizing resource savings and performance prolongation for components and engineering systems
The book is aimed at a range of readers, including graduate-level students, researchers, and engineers in mechanical, materials, and manufacturing engineering, especially those focused on resource savings, renovation, and failure prevention of components in engineering systems.
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for New Materials and Components
Remanufacturing and Advanced Machining Processes for Materials and Components presents current and emerging techniques for machining of new materials and restoration of components, as well as surface engineering methods aimed at prolonging the life of industrial systems. It examines contemporary machining processes for new materials, methods of protection and restoration of components, and smart machining processes. • Details a variety of advanced machining processes, new materials joining techniques, and methods to increase machining accuracy • Presents innovative methods for protection and restoration of components primarily from the perspective of remanufacturing and protective surface engineering • Discusses smart machining processes, including computer-integrated manufacturing and rapid prototyping, and smart materials • Provides a comprehensive summary of state-of-the-art in every section and a description of manufacturing methods • Describes the applications in recovery and enhancing purposes and identifies contemporary trends in industrial practice, emphasizing resource savings and performance prolongation for components and engineering systems The book is aimed at a range of readers, including graduate-level students, researchers, and engineers in mechanical, materials, and manufacturing engineering, especially those focused on resource savings, renovation, and failure prevention of components in engineering systems
A flexible manufacturing system for lawnmower cutting cylinders
The thesis is concerned with the conception and design of a FLEXIBLE
MANUFACTURING SYSTEM (FMS) for the automation of the manufacture of
lawnmower cutting cylinders at Suffolk Lawnmowers Ltd. A review of FMS
definitions, planning methods and current systems is carried out for the
development of a suitable FMS configuration for the final stages of
manufacture of grass cutting cylinders having 21 different design
specifications. This involves examination of the capabilities of
robotics and microcontrollers to automate the technologies used in
cylinder production.
The company's current manual batch production system is analysed to
determine the suitable form and requirements of the FMS. This includes
analyses of annual volumes, throughputs, batch sizes, product and process
mixes. Long term objectives to automate the system are identified from
which short term objectives are derived. The FMS recommended for
immediate development encompasses the short term objectives for the
welding, hardening, grinding and transfer processes of 8 cutting cylinder
specifications.
It is shown that the MIG (Argon/C02) are welding, progressive flame
hardening and wide-face cylindrical grinding processes can be developed
successfully to automate cylinder production. The recommended system
integrates these processes into an FMS through the'automatic handling
of cylinders (through three process routes) by a robotic manipulator
utilising a double gripper. 'A robotic welding station, manually loaded,
is also recommended. ' The system is controlled overall by a 32K microcontroller
with the process machines individually controlled by programmahle
logic controllers with up to 6K of memory each.
The economic appraisal of the FMS indicates a 4.4 year payback based on
direct labour and material cost savings. The company's application for
grant aid to implement the FMS design has led to an offer of a Department
of Industry grant to cover 50% of all capital and revenue costs. The
grant of £166,943 reduces the payback period to 2.3 years
Frontiers in Ultra-Precision Machining
Ultra-precision machining is a multi-disciplinary research area that is an important branch of manufacturing technology. It targets achieving ultra-precision form or surface roughness accuracy, forming the backbone and support of today’s innovative technology industries in aerospace, semiconductors, optics, telecommunications, energy, etc. The increasing demand for components with ultra-precision accuracy has stimulated the development of ultra-precision machining technology in recent decades. Accordingly, this Special Issue includes reviews and regular research papers on the frontiers of ultra-precision machining and will serve as a platform for the communication of the latest development and innovations of ultra-precision machining technologies
Cumulative index to NASA Tech Briefs, 1986-1990, volumes 10-14
Tech Briefs are short announcements of new technology derived from the R&D activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. These briefs emphasize information considered likely to be transferrable across industrial, regional, or disciplinary lines and are issued to encourage commercial application. This cumulative index of Tech Briefs contains abstracts and four indexes (subject, personal author, originating center, and Tech Brief number) and covers the period 1986 to 1990. The abstract section is organized by the following subject categories: electronic components and circuits, electronic systems, physical sciences, materials, computer programs, life sciences, mechanics, machinery, fabrication technology, and mathematics and information sciences
Multi-Agent Modeling for Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling
Multi-agent systems have been used for modelling various problems in the social, biological and technical domain. When comes to technical systems, especially manufacturing systems, agents are most often applied in optimization and scheduling problems. Traditionally, scheduling is done after creation of process plans. In this paper, agent methodology is used for integration of these two functions. The proposed multi-agent architecture provides simultaneous performance of process planning and scheduling and it consists of four intelligent agents: part and job agents, machine agent, and optimization agent. Verification and feasibility of a proposed approach is
conducted using agent based simulation in AnyLogic software