An expert system for automatic design-for-assembly

Assembly Automation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 378-388

  Sanders, David ^a   Tan, Yong Chai ^b   Rogers, Ian ^c   Tewkesbury, Giles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^c MotionTouch Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly; Automation; Design for assembly

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION; ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUES; ASSEMBLY TIME; AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY; AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY; AUTOMATIC DESIGN; DESIGN ANALYSIS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; LEAD TIME; MANUAL ASSEMBLY; MANUFACTURING COST; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MULTI-EXPERT SYSTEMS; NEW APPROACHES; NEW SYSTEM; SUB-SYSTEMS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; MODEL STRUCTURES; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 73849088357     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150910987808     Document Type: Article

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