COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF PRODUCT FAMILIES AND THEIR ASSEMBLY LINES

摘要

This paper presents the results of a join research project, called CISAL, executed by the three above-mentioned universities in collaboration with a group of industrial companies. The project has developed a fully integrated tool to concurrently design a family of products and its production means. After a short introduction related to Concurrent Engineering in assembly, the paper presents an overview of research works in this area. The next sections describe the object-oriented database used to store the data concerning product, process and equipment models and the three main modules of the computer package. Before some conclusions, examples of interactions between the modules and two industrial case studies are presented.