Integral attachment using snap-fit features: A key to assembly automation. Part 4-selection of locking features

Assembly Automation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-328

  Messler Jr , Robert W ^a   Genc, Suat ^a   Gabriele, Gary A ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCT DESIGN;

INTEGRAL LOCKING FEATURES; INTEGRAL SNAP FIT FEATURES;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 0031386985     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445159710191606     Document Type: Review

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