Assembly Automation and Product Design (1)

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Part of this book is based on the book Mechanical Assembly published by 1986, which was completed by G. Boothroyd and A.H. Redford. In the later version of automatic assembly completed by G.Boothroyed, C. Li Po and L.E.Murch, the original materials developed by university of salford were updated with the development of the work of MIT. In those days, we felt that production engineers and designers wanted to learn automatic assembly because it seemed to provide a means to improve productivity and competitiveness. Starting from 1978, we have developed a project, which is promising to improve productivity and reduce costs. This topic is called Assembly Design (DFA). DFA method has been widely used and has helped a large number of enterprises to introduce competitive product design.

Therefore, this paper contains a detailed discussion of assembly design, and will consider the topics of assembly automation and product design in parallel.

When considering the automation of assembly, we should first carefully analyze the convenience of product design for automatic assembly. In addition, in order to provide a comparative basis for automation economy, we should also analyze whether the products are convenient for manual assembly. In fact, we often find that if the product is properly designed, manual assembly is incomparable to automatic assembly in terms of economy. So we used a whole chapter to talk about manual assembly, and also used a chapter to talk about high-speed automation and robot assembly design. The third chapter is related to electrical assembly.

The second edition contains the popular "Technical Manual of Small Parts Feeding and Positioning" published by the University of Massachusetts as an appendix. This version also contains raw data and coding system for product design of high-speed automation and robot assembly, which was also developed by the University of Massachusetts. Finally, a large number of problems are added to the book, and effective solutions to these problems can be found in the book.

This book aims to attract manufacturing and product engineers and engineering students studying in colleges and universities.

I want to thank Dr. A.H. Redford for his generosity, because he allowed me to use the materials in our original Mechanical Assembly. I would also like to thank Dr. C.R. Li Po and Dr. L.E. Murch, who allowed me to use a lot of materials in our co-authored Technical Manual to feed and locate small parts. Finally, I would like to thank Dr. Dewhurst for his contribution to the design of our robot assembly products.

Jeffrey Boothroyd is an emeritus professor at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. He is the author and co-author of more than 65,438+000 travel notes, and he is also the co-author and editor-in-chief of many books, including Basic Principles of Machining and Machine Tools (2nd Edition) [65,438+0] (in cooperation with W.A.Knight), Automatic Assembly (in cooperation with C. Li Po and L.E. Murch), and so on. Compared with other professional societies, he is not only a member of the American Society of Manufacturing Engineering, but also an academician of the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Busroyd received a doctorate in engineering from University of London (1962) and a doctorate (1974). Among his numerous honors and awards, National Technical Medal and SME/ASME Commercial Medal are among them.