1st Edition

Computer-Aided Fixture Design Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Series/55

Edited By Yiming (Kevin) Rong Copyright 1999
492 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

Illustrates recently developed fixture design and verification technology, focusing on their central role in manufacturing processes. The text uses up-to-date computer technology to minimize costs, increase productivity and assure product quality. It presents advanced data and analysis that is directly applicable to development of comprehensive computer-aided modular fixture design system.

Fixture-design principle; modular-fixture system; interactive computer-aided fixture design; group-technology-based computer-aided fixture design; automated fixture configuration design; constraint-based fixture assembly modeling and design; geometric analysis for automated modular-fixture design; fixturing accuracy analysis and verification; fixturing surface accessibility analysis; fixturing stiffness and clamping stability verification; fast interference-checking algorithm for automated fixture design; fixture planning and setup planning in CAD/CAM integration.

Biography

Yiming (Kevin) Rong

". . .detailed and well written. . ..should be a valuable reference work for planning engineers and for research workers."
---The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology