Assembly Automation and Product DesignText for professional seminars and upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on assembly automation in manufacturing and product design, and/or reference guide for manufacturing, product, design, industrial, and mechanical engineers seeking to improve productivity and competitiveness while redu |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Automatic Assembly Transfer Systems | 17 |
4 | 24 |
Automatic Feeding and OrientingVibratory Feeders | 31 |
Automatic Feeding and OrientingMechanical Feeders | 95 |
Feed Tracks Escapements PartsPlacement Mechanisms | 137 |
Performance and Economics of Assembly Systems | 197 |
Design for Manual Assembly | 229 |
Product Design for HighSpeed Automatic Assembly | 281 |
PrintedCircuitBoard Assembly | 309 |
Feasibility Study for Assembly Automation | 333 |
Problems | 357 |
Appendix A Simple Method for the Determination of the Coefficient | 379 |
Precision of the Method | 383 |
Nomenclature | 401 |
Common terms and phrases
amplitude analysis applied assem assembly cost assembly machine assembly robots assembly system assembly worker assumed automatic assembly automation average b₁ base Boothroyd bowl feeder bowl wall carrier center of mass centerboard chamfer coefficient of friction component cutout cycle cylinder defective delivery chute Design for Assembly diameter digit dimensionless downtime dynamic friction effect efficiency equipment fault feed track feeding and orienting Figure free-transfer machine frequency gravity-feed track handling hole horizontal inclined increase indexing machine load loaded magazine magazine manual assembly manual insertion manufacturing maximum feed rate mechanism motion natural resting aspects nomogram orienting devices orienting system printed circuit boards product design quality level rejected rivet robot assembly rotational screw shown in Fig shows single-station slide slider slot solder special-purpose station subassembly symmetry tion tool track acceleration track angle vibration angle vibratory vibratory-bowl feeder wave solder wave-soldered wiper blade