TY - GEN
T1 - A graph-based method for mechanical product family modeling and functional tolerancing
AU - Wang, Haoyu
AU - Roy, Utpal
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - To meet the needs for product variety, many companies are shifting from a mass production mode to mass customization, which demands quick response to the needs of individual customers with high quality and low costs. One of the key elements of mass customization is that the product family can share some modules. The multifunction nature of mechanical components necessitates designers to redesign them each time a component's function changes. This is the main obstacle to the practical mechanical product family modeling. In this paper, a graph grammar based mechanical product family modeling method is proposed. The other issue that is studied in this paper is tolerancing, which is a critical part of the product design process because it is intimately related to a product's quality and costs. A functional tolerance specification method, called the mirror method, is proposed to provide guidelines for the component's datum reference frame construction and generic and uniform functional tolerance specifications.
AB - To meet the needs for product variety, many companies are shifting from a mass production mode to mass customization, which demands quick response to the needs of individual customers with high quality and low costs. One of the key elements of mass customization is that the product family can share some modules. The multifunction nature of mechanical components necessitates designers to redesign them each time a component's function changes. This is the main obstacle to the practical mechanical product family modeling. In this paper, a graph grammar based mechanical product family modeling method is proposed. The other issue that is studied in this paper is tolerancing, which is a critical part of the product design process because it is intimately related to a product's quality and costs. A functional tolerance specification method, called the mirror method, is proposed to provide guidelines for the component's datum reference frame construction and generic and uniform functional tolerance specifications.
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U2 - 10.1115/detc2005-85546
DO - 10.1115/detc2005-85546
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33144466863
SN - 079184739X
SN - 9780791847398
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005
SP - 141
EP - 154
BT - Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences - DETC2005
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - DETC2005: ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Y2 - 24 September 2005 through 28 September 2005
ER -