AN INTEGRATED COMPUTER-AIDED MODULAR FIXTURE DESIGN SYSTEM FOR INTERFERENCE FREE DESIGN

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 1998-R, Issue , 1998, Pages 909-916

  Kow, T S ^a   Kumar, A Senthil ^a   Fuh, J Y H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DESIGN;

AUTOMATED FIXTURE DESIGN; COMPUTER-AIDED; DESIGN MODULE; DESIGN SYSTEMS; DESIGN-PROCESS; FIXTURE DESIGN; INTERFERENCE-FREE; MODULAR FIXTURES; QUALITY DESIGN; SYSTEMS ISSUES;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 85124356973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE1998-1106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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