A system for analyzing automatic assembly and disassemblyoperations

摘要

A system for evaluating products in their design phase has beendeveloped. It is integrated into a CAD/CAM environment to calculate costfor assembling and disassembling parts. In previous work, a genericassembly and disassembly model was developed to represent operationsrequired for product manufacturing and demanufacturing. To be useful,the model requires a method for translating high-level instructions fromproduct designers into low-level assembly and disassembly instructions.This paper presents a set of rules for accomplishing this task. Thedeveloped rules are used for manipulating strings representing parts andhandlers in binary assembly and disassembly operations. A telephoneassembly and disassembly simulation is used to illustrate the developedsystem