An integrated approach for product family and assembly system design

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 324-334

  De Lit, Pierre ^a   Delchambre, Alain ^a   Henrioud, Jean Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Lab d'Automat de Besançon   (France)

Author keywords

Assembly system; Integrated design; Product family

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PRODUCT FAMILY (PF);

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 0037389075     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2003.808853     Document Type: Article

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