Strategic Manufacturing Initiative: A Unified Representationto Support Evaluation of Designs for Manufacturibility

将开发一个基于计算机的设计系统， 评估，将支持可制造性评估， 设计过程的早期阶段（当配置 在详细设计阶段（当 已经建立了规模）。 评价和重新设计 应要求，将向设计师提供建议， 根据需要进行更改，并重新评估设计。 将在配置时提供评估， 注塑领域的详细设计水平， 冲压、压铸、装配搬运、装配 插入和公差。 将被提交的陈述 所提供的是基于功能的，不仅包括 形式和空间关系的表现，而且 所需的其他设计和制造信息 评价。 该系统将由机械， 伦斯勒的电气和工业工程研究人员 理工学院和马萨诸塞州大学，是为了 进行测试和评估，以确定 表示，功效双层评价概念，以及 包括可制造性数据库的完整性。

A computer-based design system is to be developed and evaluated that will support evaluation for manufacturability at an early stage in the design process (when the configuration has been established) and also at the detailed design stage (when dimensions have been established). Evaluation and redesign advice will be provided on request to the designer, who can make changes as desired and have the design re-evaluated. Evaluation will be provided at the configuration and detailed design levels in the domains of injection molding, stamping, die casting, handling for assembly, assembly by insertion, and for tolerances. The representations to be provided are feature-based, and will include not only representations of form and spatial relationships, but also additional design and manufacturing information needed for the evaluations. The system, to be developed jointly by mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Massachusetts, is to be tested and evaluated to determine the validity of the representations, of the efficacy two-tier evaluation concept, and the completeness of the manufacturability data base included.