Research Progress Report Concerning the Research on Product Design EvaluationTechnology That Takes Into Consideration Their Processing and Assembling Features (Summarized Version). I-2 Corporate Integration. IMS International Joint Research Program Domest

摘要

The Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) initiative is a major multinationalcooperative R&D program focused on improving the global competitiveness of manufacturing. In the early 1990s, over twenty IMS projects were initiated by Japan's Ministry of Internationl Trade and Industry (MITI); this translated document is a summarized version of the project research progress report. A method for evaluating machining and assembly design stage possibilities as one of the key technologies for the constitution of the designing system for products or parts in accordance with unmanned factor automation and integration production systems is discussed. The authors examined and analyzed survey materials regarding the evaluation of design, and field studies regarding the methodology of the evaluation of the possibilities of machining and assembly. Also included is the relationship of CAD/CAM to evaluation technology. (Copyright (c) 1993 National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.)