Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) technique has been utilized extensively in industry field these days. This paper is a detailed review which will discuss the development history of DFMA, compare some other “DFMA-like” theories, and good stories about the successful implementations of DFMA in real-word product design. 1. DFMA and its development history 1.1 Traditional design paradigm ...

In this paper, we report on the synthesis of Cu nanoparticles through a single-precursor route by controlling the growth temperature. Selective adsorption of oleylamine on various crystal planes may play an important role in the growth process. The understanding of this self-assembling process will help us develop reliable and reproducible methods to synthesis other three dimensional nanostruct...

Pectin is a structurally complex plant polysaccharide with many industrial applications in food products. The structural elucidation of pectin is aided by digestion assays with glycosyl hydrolases. We report the automated glycan assembly of oligosaccharides related to the arabinogalactan side chains of pectin as novel biochemical tools to determine the substrate specificities of endogalactanase...

Protein interactions can promote the reversible assembly of multiprotein complexes, which have been identified as critical elements in many regulatory processes in cells. The biophysical characterization of assembly products, their number and stoichiometry, and the dynamics of their interactions in solution can be very difficult. A classical first-principle approach for the study of purified pr...

This paper describes a prototype software system that implements a form of featurebased design for assembly. It is not an automated design system but instead a decision and design aid for designers interested in Concurrent Design. Feature-based design captures design intent (assembly topology, product function, manufacturing, or field use) while creating part and product geometry. Design for as...

This short paper outlines new hardware and software technologies and methods being developed for automated assembly of precision high-value products such as magnetic storage devices, palmtop and wear-able computers and other high-density equipment. Our Agile Assembly Architecture (AAA) supports the creation of miniature assembly factories (mini-factories) built from small modular robotic compon...

Assembly lines are one of the most frequently used flow oriented production systems in industry. Although only a few researchers have studied them, two-sided assembly lines are usually utilised to produce high-volume large-sized products such as trucks and buses. In this study, more than one two-sided assembly line constructed in parallel are balanced simultaneously using a newly developed ant ...

The radical changes which distinguished the market during the last decade force to configure assembly systems as flexible assembly lines able to face demand fluctuation, high volumes and continuous customer driven development of new products. Thus, the optimal design and management of assembly systems is crucial to achieve production efficiency, product quality and customer satisfaction. A rema...

The authors propose the implementation of hybrid Fuzzy Logic-Genetic Algorithm (FL-GA) methodology to plan the automatic assembly and disassembly sequence of products. The GA-Fuzzy Logic approach is implemented onto two levels. The first level of hybridization consists of the development of a Fuzzy controller for the parameters of an assembly or disassembly planner based on GAs. This controller...

A significant part of the activities in a manufacturing system involve assembly tasks. Nowadays, these tasks are object of automation due to the market increasing demand for quality and variety of products. Them, assembly system automation must be also flexible to cope product diversification, functionality, delivery time and volumes involved. However, these are vulnerable to faults due to the ...