Flexible Design and Manufacturing Systems for Automotive Components and Sheet Metal Parts

摘要

The objective of this effort was to improve manufacturing flexibility by developing a systematic approach to improving the product-process design methodology using transactions analysis and feature-base methods of computer system and database design for the automotive components and sheet metal operations. The first two-and-a-half sections of this report duplicate to a significant degree the report submitted by the sister project Fast and Flexible Communication of Engineering Information in the Aerospace Industry, because this work was executed in a nearly seamless fashion. The later sections of this report provide outputs distinct from those reported by the sister project, although many of the insights cannot be easily traced to one of the projects to the other exclusion.