Integrated product and process design across an extended enterprise: An implementation in fixture design

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

A platform for facilitating mass collaborative product realization

10.1016/j.cirp.2009.03.019CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology581127-130CIRA

An evo-devo framework for computational design synthesis based on a regulation process

Evolutionary design synthesis has been used in solving many engineering design problems due to the reliability, robustness and domain-independence of evolutionary algorithms. However, little has been done to explore the role of design knowledge in evolutionary design synthesis. in this paper, inspired by recent advances in evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), we propose an Evo-Devo framework for computational design synthesis that utilizes design knowledge to guide an evolutionary search processes. The framework embodies a new regulation process to derive feasible phenotypes from the synthesis of genotypes and design knowledge. A multi-agent system (MAS) is implemented to perform the regulation needed to enforce the constraint satisfaction of phenotypes. The practical applicability of the Evo-Devo framework is validated through a meal design problem to be solved as a case study. The results indicate that the Evo-Devo framework and its regulation process outperform traditional processes in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and reliability in searching a constrained design space. The proposed framework and the MAS-based implementation of he regulation process can be applied to improve the performance of evolutionary design synthesis in different domains and tasks in general. © 2008 by ASME

Production pilot for co-operation in factory development

This paper is dedicated to the factory development where management of established knowledge and company practiceis a big challenge because its process involves many competence domains such as process planning, productioninvestment and building construction, etc. This article presents an in-house developed production pilot for a better cooperationand support in factory development. Details about methodologies and the thinking behind the pilot will bepresented in the paper. The pilot aims to ease the sharing and reuse of knowledge and experiences, create a valueaddingworking process, and ease the collaboration and semantic interpretation between disciplines within factorydevelopment.QC 20120109</p

An adaptive machining fixture design system for automatically dealing with design changes

10.1115/1.2752816Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering73259-26

A comparison of methods for assessing total arterial compliance

The paper discusses manufacturing enterprises' compelling challenges that are directly stemming from generic conflicts between competition and cooperation, local autonomy and global behavior, design and emergence, planning and reactivity, uncertainty and a plethora of information. Responses in product and service design, organization of production networks, planning and management of operations, as well as production control are surveyed. As illustrated through industrial case studies, production engineering should integrate a rich body of interdisciplinary results together with contemporary information and communication technologies in order to facilitate cooperation and responsiveness that are vital in competitive, sustainable manufacturing