Assembly-Oriented Product Structure based on Preliminary Assembly Process Engineering
Year: 2009
Editor: Norell Bergendahl, M.; Grimheden, M.; Leifer, L.; Skogstad, P.; Lindemann, U.
Author: Demoly, Frédéric; Gomes, Samuel; Eynard, Benoît; Rivest, Louis; Sagot, Jean-Claude
Series: ICED
Section: Design for X, Design to X
Page(s): 161-172
Abstract
Currently, product design is mainly influenced by customer requirements, i.e. designers are more and more focused to have a well-balanced product between function and form. However, other requirements from corporate processes such as assembly engineering should be taken into account during the design process to avoid iterations problems and therefore a lack of efficiency and productivity. Based on intensive research over the past several years through assembly planning and Design for Assembly issues, an emergent research topic is bound to integrate product design and assembly sequence planning in the broader context of Systems Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management. Thus, a top-down approach called ?Assembly-Oriented Design? is considered to design product integrating assembly engineering information in a right first time approach. This paper presents an assembly-oriented product structure methodology based on assembly rules using the SysML paradigm to model product viewpoints relationships for assembly in the early stages of the design process. The presented industrial automotive case belongs to an exhaust system: a Catalytic Converter & Diesel Particulate Filter system.
Keywords: Assembly-Oriented Design, Systems Engineering, Assembly Sequence, Product structure