Qualitative Reasoning for Additional Die Casting Applications

Miller, R. Allen ; Cui, Dehua ; Ma, Yuming

Ohio State University (United States)

关键词: Casting;    36 Materials Science;    Design;    Manufacturing;    Engineers;   

DOI  :  10.2172/812027
RP-ID  :  DOE/ID/13690
RP-ID  :  FC07-98ID13690
RP-ID  :  812027

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

If manufacturing incompatibility of a product can be evaluated at the early product design stage, the designers can modify their design to reduce the effect of potential manufacturing problems. This will result in fewer manufacturing problems, less redsign, less expensive tooling, lower cost, better quality, and shorter development time. For a given design, geometric reasoning can predict qualitatively the behaviors of a physical manufacturing process by representing and reasoning with incomplete knowledge of the physical phenomena. It integrates a design with manufacturing processes to help designers simultaneously consider design goals and manufacturing constraints during the early design stage. The geometric reasoning approach can encourage design engineers to qualitatively evaluate the compatibility of their design with manufacturing limitations and requirements.