Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System

1: Introduction. 1. Assembly. 2. Assembly lines. 3. Product and assembly line design. 4. Scope of the book. 5. One typical case study. 6. Disposition. 2: State Of The Art. 1. PF and assembly line design. 2. PF representation. 3. Design for assembly. 4. AP representations. 5. Assembly planning. 6. Line design. 3: PF And Assembly Line Design Methodology. 1. Concurrent engineering and assembly. 2. Concurrent design and 'optimisation' problems. 3. Proposed design philosophy for PFs and assembly lines. 4. Conclusions. 4: Description Of Product Families. 1. Proposed PF structure representation. 2. Illustrative case study. 3. Conclusions. 5: PF Structuring And Preliminary DFA. 1. Objectives of the DFA. 2. Proposed structuring and preliminary DFA issues. 3. Case study. 4. Conclusions. 6: Representation of APS for PFS. 1. Proposed AP representation. 2. Examples. 3. Conclusions. 7: Preliminary Assembly Planning. 1. Hypotheses on the APs. 2. Proposed preliminary AP tool. 3. Case study. 4. Conclusions. 8: Detailed DFA and AP. 1. A detailed DFA principle for PFs: standardisation. 2. Joining process and assembly method selection. 3. Detailed AP of the FEns. 4. Equipment preselection. 5. Case study. 6. Conclusions. 9: Line Layout. 1. Line decomposition. 2. Determination of the conveying system. 3. Logical layout. 4. Differences between logical and physical layout. 5. Case study. 6. Conclusions. 10: Conclusions And Further Work. 1. Summary of the results and discussion. 2. Further research. Appendices: Appendix A: Precedence operators. 1. Operator ↑. 2. Operator