Advanced Computer-Aided Fixture Design

Fixtures - the component or assembly that is part of the machining process. This book discusses the fundamentals of Computer-Aided Fixture Design (CAFD) techniques and covers fixture planning, fixture design, and fixture design verifications, and the overall integration with CAD / CAM. The book shows how CAFD is able to increase the quality of assurance through the simulation and the science-based technical specification and estimation in business quoting, especially in the current supplier-based manufacturing . It provides provides case study examples.

* This book provides a total solution of CAFD, including planning, design, and design verification
* Practical and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the real industrial application projects
* Introduces the integration of fixture design and analysis with CAD / CAM.

Preface; Ch1. background; 1.1 Mass customization and fixture design in manufacturing; 1.2 Introduction to Computer-Aided Fixture Design; 1.3 Recent development of CAFD; 1.4 Objectives; content; and organization of the book; Ch 2. Machining Setup Planning; 2.1 Feature representation of inter-setup tolerance stack-up; Manufacturing resource model; 2.4. Setup planning generation; 2.5 System implementation; Ch.3 Fixture Planning; 3.1 Geometric model of fixturing; 3.2 Kinetic model of fixturing; 3.3 Fixture locating datum surface determination; 3.4 Fixture locating position optimization; 3.5 Fixture clamping design and optimization; 3.6 System implementation; Ch. 4 Fixture Configuration Design; 4.1 Automated modular fixture design; 4.2. Automated permanent fixture design with pre-defined component types; 4.3 Variation fixture design for part families; 4.4 Computer-aided fixture design with operation constraints; Ch. 5 Fixture Design Verification; 5.1 Geometric constraint verification; 5.2 Locating tolerance verification; 5.3 Locating tolerance assignment; 5.4 Fixturing surface accessibility verification; 5.6 Minimum clamping force determination; 5.7 Fixturing stiffness analysis; 5.8 System implementation; index