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，导致设计难以制造或制造成本高昂。可制造性设计的目标是确保最终设计不仅在性能上令人满意，而且在可制造性上也令人满意。为了考虑设计阶段的制造考虑，正在开发半自动的技术，这些技术仍然需要相当多的用户交互。因此，实现需要一个有效的图形界面来允许用户与程序通信。因此，最好在具有高级图形功能的CAD/CAM工作站上实施。这笔赠款提供了一台CAD/CAM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.