Industrial Assembly

1 Introduction and fundamental concepts of assembly.- 1.1Introduction.- 1.2Nature and role of assembly in industry.- 1.3 The economic significance of assembly.- 1.4 Assembly engineering and rationalization.- 1.5 Management issues and assembly organizations.- 1.6 General taxonomy of assembly operations and systems.- 1.7 Assembly information representation.- 1.8 Fundamental models and measures of assembly.- 1.9 Assembly planning issues.- 1.10 Summary.- 1.11 Review questions.- References.- 2 Assembly tasks and technology.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Levels of automation and flexibility in assembly.- 2.3 Assembly tasks.- 2.4 Disassembly tasks.- 2.5 Insertion and joining tasks.- 2.6 Summary.- 2.7 Review questions.- References.- 3 Design for assembly.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Product design for assembly.- 3.3 Group technology for assembly.- 3.4 Procedural systems for assemblability evaluation.- 3.5 Design for disassembly and recycling.- 3.6 Computer-aided methods for DFA.- 3.7 Artificial intelligence approaches to DFA.- 3.8 Summary.- 3.9 Review questions.- References.- 4 Design of assembly systems.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The planning of an assembly system.- 4.3 Assembly organization.- 4.4 Handling facilities.- 4.5 Machines for assembly automation.- 4.6 Economic justification of assembly systems.- 4.7 Examples of assembly systems.- 4.8 Summary.- 4.9 Review questions.- References.- 5 Assembly system design and planning.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Assembly line balancing.- 5.3 Assembly system design.- 5.4 Process planning in assembly.- 5.5 Sequence planning for robotic assembly.- 5.6 Summary.- 5.7 Review questions.- References.- 6 Performance evaluation of stochastic assembly systems.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Push systems.- 6.3 Pull systems.- 6.4 Flexible assembly systems.- 6.5 Simulation analysis.- 6.6 Summary.- 6.7 Review questions.- References.- 7 Sequencing and scheduling of assembly operations.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Scheduling in push systems.- 7.3 Level scheduling in