IFAB Smart Manufacturing Adapting Rapidly to Product Variants (SMARTV).

摘要

This one-year project developed and demonstrated a SMARTV iFAB Foundry, a single node within a larger, future iFAB Foundry network. Our work embodied the key idea of evolving a smart technology that can integrate design objectives with manufacturing realities and adapt rapidly to diverse product challenges. The SMARTV project focused on welding and assembly operations to support rapid manufacturing of custom military vehicles under the larger iFAB program. Our goal was to fabricate an HMMWV spaceframe with assembled attachments at least five times (5x) faster than the current best practices allow.