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Design Verification for Bent Sheet Metal Parts: A Graphs Approach
Author(s) -
Duflou J.R.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3995.1997.tb00063.x
Subject(s) - design for manufacturability , computer science , sheet metal , bent molecular geometry , design for assembly , reduction (mathematics) , engineering design process , process (computing) , scale (ratio) , plan (archaeology) , mathematical optimization , identification (biology) , engineering drawing , industrial engineering , algorithm , programming language , engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , biology , physics , geometry , botany , structural engineering , archaeology , history
Design for manufacturing requires the flexible verification and optimization of design features with regard to the suitability to the planned production methods. The automatic identification and generation of a suitable process plan for large scale bent sheet metal parts would provide a tool that would allow efficient feedback in the design phase. In this paper, a number of problem‐size reduction methods are proposed to bring automatic manufacturability verification a few steps closer to reality. The scale of the reformulated combinatorial problems is illustrated, indicating the suitability for solution by means of known search algorithms.