A graph theoretic approach linking design dimensioning and process planning Part 1: Designing to process planning

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 261-271

  Thimm, G ^a   Britton, G A ^a   Fok, S C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Design for machining; Graph theory; Part variation; Process planning; Tolerance analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GRAPH THEORY; MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINING; PROBABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DESIGN FOR MACHINING; PART VARIATION; PROCESS PLANNING; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038169477     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-003-1683-1     Document Type: Article

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