Industrial Assembly [Paperback]

Industrial Assembly is a rapidly changing field with significant importance in production. This book is the first of its kind to combine technology, design, methods, and planning and control models of assembly operations and systems. With the increasing importance of assembly in industry and of simultaneous engineering approaches, this timely publication provides: comprehensive coverage of technological, engineering, and management aspects of this field; multi-disciplinary approaches to rationalization of assembly operations and systems; explanation of qualitative models, information technologies, and design techniques, which have been practised effectively in industrial assembly; as well as theoretical foundations and emerging trends that shape the future of assembly.1 Introduction and fundamental concepts of assembly.- 1.1Introduction.- 1.2Nature and role of assembly in industry.- 1.3 The economic significance of assembly.- 1.4 Assembly engineering and rationalization.- 1.5 Management issues and assembly organizations.- 1.6 General taxonomy of assembly operations and systems.- 1.7 Assembly information representation.- 1.8 Fundamental models and measures of assembly.- 1.9 Assembly planning issues.- 1.10 Summary.- 1.11 Review questions.- References.- 2 Assembly tasks and technology.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Levels of automation and flexibility in assembly.- 2.3 Assembly tasks.- 2.4 Disassembly tasks.- 2.5 Insertion and joining tasks.- 2.6 Summary.- 2.7 Review questions.- References.- 3 Design for assembly.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Product design for assembly.- 3.3 Group technology for assembly.- 3.4 Procedural systems for assemblability evaluation.- 3.5 Design for disassembly and recycling.- 3.6 Computer-aided methods for DFA.- 3.7 Artificial intelligence approaches to DFA.- 3.8 Summary.- 3.9 Review questions.- References.- 4 Design of assembly systems.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The planning of an assembly system.- 4.3 Assembly organization.- 4.4 Handling facl£/