Joining element design and product variety in manufacturing industries

Derk H.D. Eggink; Marco W. Groll

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2020.05.014

Joining element design and product variety in manufacturing industries

Derk H.D. Eggink^*, Marco W. Groll

^*Corresponding author for this work

Design Engineering

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Abstract

Product variety is a growing trend of offering highly configurable products at the cost of inducing complexity in manufacturing. Joining is a key manufacturing process and historically was a paper-based process with incomplete variety documentation. Nowadays, digital joining element design is a substitution of paper for 3D space. Nonetheless, it remains an ambiguous manual task with limited automation, resulting in time-consuming iterative error-prone development trajectories and costly reworks. This contribution addresses the state of the art in joining element design in both research and industry practice. It reviews product variety and its impact on joining processes. The paper identifies a need for integrating product variety into joining element design and it proposes a solution pathway using artificial intelligence methods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	76-81
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	88
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.05.014
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2020
Event	13th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, CIRP ICME 2019 - Hotel Continental Ischia, Naples, Italy Duration: 17 Jul 2019 → 19 Jul 2019 Conference number: 13

Keywords

Artificial intelligence
Automation
Complexity
Design
Design for assembly
Engineering
Joining elements
Joining locations
Machine learning
Modular design
Process selection
Product variety
Standardization

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Joining element design and product variety in manufacturing industries

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