Mechanical Assemblies
Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development
ISBN13: 9780195157826ISBN10: 0195157826
hardback,
544 pages
Feb 2004,
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Description
Assembly is the process by which parts become products that do useful things. It is therefore fundamental to the work of every mechanical engineer. Yet the design of assemblies and the process of assembling them are rarely taught in universities. In Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development , author Daniel E. Whitney draws on more than thirty years of academic and industry experience to fill this significant gap in the mechanical engineering curriculum.The first book to develop a systematic approach to the modeling and design of assemblies, this text addresses the subject on two levels. Assembly in the Small develops a systematic theory for the design of assemblies with their functions in mind, starting from the basic principles of mechanical constraint and including methods for representing assemblies mathematically. In addition, important assembly analysis techniques such as predicting variation and generating assembly sequences are covered using a consistent mathematical formulation. Assembly in the Large deals with the role of assemblies in product development, including product architecture, design for assembly, and manufacturing strategy, as well as design and evaluation of assembly processes and systems.
Features
- Places the design of assemblies in the context of product architecture and industry demand for numerous product models and versions with short delivery times
- Describes methods of designing assembly workstations and systems
- Includes numerous examples from the automobile, aircraft, and consumer product industries
- Provides several computer programs that illustrate principles in the book
- Utilizes many MATLABŪ routines that perform typical calculations related to the design of assemblies or assembly systems
- A CD--packaged with each copy of the text --containing appendices to the book and software that accompanies the exercises and examples in the text
- Lecture notes available as slides
- Lecture Notes Available as Slides
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Product Details
544 pages; 570 halftones & line illus.; 8 x 10; ISBN13: 978-0-19-515782-6ISBN10: 0-19-515782-6
About the Author(s)
DANIEL E. WHITNEY is Senior Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Systems Division and Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the ASME and the IEEE.
