The Identification of Current CAD/CAM and Socio-Technical Research in Product Design and Manufacturing.

摘要

This survey is conducted to identify current computer aided design/computer aided manufacture and related socio-technological research and researchers. It seeks to clarify the direction of their development efforts and to encourage interchange among field practitioners,while locating potential knowledge gaps. The extension of survey boundaries to include relevant social systems as well as manufacturing processes will heighten the awareness among engineers and social/behavioral scientists of the interrelationships of their work. The survey classifies manufacturing functions into nine major categories:design/development,production planning,preparation for production,scheduling and control,manufacturing,quality control,plant engineering and maintenance,long range planning,and manufacturing management. In total, 358CAD/CAM and social system researchers are contacted in the United States,Europe and Japan.