Manufacturing Engineer
Volume 78, Issue 6, December 1999
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Volume 78, Issue 6
December 1999
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- Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, page: 226 –226
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990601
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- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990602
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- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990603
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- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990604
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- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990605
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- Author(s): R. Baxter
- Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, p. 241 –244
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990606
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The EPCC, working with leading UK expert-systems provider Cogsys and three end-users from the heart of Scottish manufacturing, set out to develop a new breed of manufacturing planning tools. All this came together into the highly successful industrial process optimisation project. By building in a rule-based expert system at the heart of the system, it is possible to provide the user with a simple means of customising the tool in-house, with a little training. The author describes the development of a software tool to simplify production planning under the many constraints of a real-world factory. - Author(s): B. Lee
- Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, p. 245 –248
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990607
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Although flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) are often presented as capable of machining a wide range of products, there are many intrinsic constraints that limit their use. The author explains the limitations and describes a number of steps FMS users could take to prevent constraints in the initial design precluding good performance. - Author(s): V. Bouchereau and H. Rowlands
- Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, p. 249 –254
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990608
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Quality function deployment (QFD) provides a means of translating customer requirements into technical requirements for each stage of a product development or service department. However, it is not an easy tool to use. The authors outline how other analytical techniques can be combined with QFD to resolve some of its drawbacks. - Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, p. 255 –263
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990609
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- Author(s): C. Adams ; R. Brown ; P. Freeman ; A. Lewis ; S. Barnes
- Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, p. 264 –268
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990610
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Rapid prototyping (RP) technology has attracted a lot of attention as an effective tool to compress the new product development process and hence decrease the time to market. As RP technology continues to develop, other systems and processes, such as computer integrated manufacturing and metal injection moulding, are becoming available to industry. One such technology, driven by RP, is rapid tooling (RT) which has the potential to reduce product lead times. RT can be broken into two broad classifications: indirect and direct tooling. In producing a mould tool, for example, indirect tooling would use a master pattern, such as an RP model, to produce the mould cavity, whereas direct tooling would build the mould tool directly from CAD data. The paper reviews the prospects of creating a mould tool directly from a computer model. - Source: Manufacturing Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, page: 269 –269
- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990611
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- DOI: 10.1049/me:19990612
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