Intelligent assembly modeling and simulation

Assembly Automation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 215-235

  Gupta, Satyandra K ^a,b   Paredis, Christiaan J J ^a   Sinha, Rajarishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile production; Assembly; Modelling; Planning; Simulation; Tool selection

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; ASSEMBLY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLANNING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ASSEMBLY DESIGN; ASSEMBLY PLANNING; INTELLIGENT ASSEMBLY; TOOL SELECTION;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 0035781031     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150110399151     Document Type: Article

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