Engineering Research Equipment Grant: CAD/CAM Workstation for Semi-Automated Design for Manufacturability

设计和制造通常被视为独立的 活动，导致难以或昂贵的设计， 制造。 可制造性设计的目标是 确保最终设计不仅在以下方面令人满意 性能，而且在生产力。 在设计中考虑制造因素 阶段，正在开发半自动技术， 仍然需要相当多的用户交互。 因此，委员会认为， 实现需要有效的图形界面， 用户可以与程序进行通信。 因此 最好在具有高级功能的CAD/CAM工作站上执行 图形能力。 这项拨款提供一个计算机辅助设计/计算机辅助制造工作站， 用于可制造性设计领域的研究。

Design and manufacture are often treated as independent activities, resulting in designs that are difficult or expensive to manufacture. The goal of designing for manufacturability is to ensure that the final design is satisfactory not only in performance, but also in producibility. To account for manufacturing considerations in the design stage, techniques are being developed that are semi-automatic that still demand considerable user interaction. Consequently, implementation requires an effective graphical interface to permit the user to communicate with the program. Therefore, the implementation is best done on a CAD/CAM workstation with advanced graphics capabilities. This grant provides a CAD/CAM workstation to be used for research in the field of design for manufacturability.