Engineering Research Deployment Teaching Initiative: Systematic Assembly Planning in Concurrent Design

9409941 Kroll这个项目的目标是开发一种手工程序，用于生成产品的装配序列，并与向机械工程专业的本科生和研究生讲授并行设计相结合。所制订的程序将以计算机化装配设计和装配规划两个研究项目为基础，并将加以调整以供人工使用。装配规划方法将在本科高级设计课程和研究生选修课程中进行测试。参与的学生将能够以讲义和实验笔记的形式将所学到的方法和书面材料带到工业界。产品和工艺的并行设计已经大大节省了工业成本。然而，工程学院教授这些学科的方法在提供解决问题的综合方法和系统的设计过程方面存在不足。本课题的重点是并行产品设计的装配规划方面，前提是产品结构和配置比微小的零件细节更重要。

9409941 Kroll The goal of this project is to develop a manual procedure for generating assembly sequences of products to be used in conjunction with teaching concurrent design to undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering students. The developed procedure will be based on two research projects in computerized design for assembly and assembly planning, and will be adapted for manual use. The assembly planning method will be tested in a senior-level undergraduate design class and a graduate elective course. Participating students will be able to take with them to industry the learned methodology and written materials in the form of handouts and laboratory notes. Concurrent design of product and processes has resulted in significant cost savings in industry. Yet, methods for teaching these subjects in engineering schools fall short in providing both a comprehensive approach to the problem and a systematic design procedure. This project focuses on the assembly planning aspect of concurrent product design, with the premise that product structure and configuration are more important than minute part details.