Assembly Automation and Product Design / Edition 2

by Geoffrey Boothroyd

Overview

Addressing design for automated and manual assembly processes, Assembly Automation and Product Design, Second Edition examines assembly automation in parallel with product design. The author enumerates the components, processes, performance, and comparative economics of several types of automatic assembly systems. He provides information on equipment such as transfer devices, parts feeders, feed tracks, placing mechanisms, and robots.

Presenting detailed discussions of product design for assembly, the book contains over 500 drawings, tables, and equations, and numerous problems and laboratory experiments that help clarify and reinforce essential concepts. Highlighting the importance of well-designed products, the book covers design for manual assembly, high-speed automatic and robot assembly, and electronics assembly. The new edition includes the popular Handbook of Feeding and Orienting Techniques for Small Parts, published at the University of Massachusetts, as an appendix. This provides more than 100 pages packed with useful data and information that will help you avoid the costly errors that often plague high-volume manufacturing companies.

In today's extremely competitive, highly unpredictable world, your organization needs to constantly find new ways to deliver value. Performing the same old processes in the same old ways is no longer a viable option. Taking an analytical yet practical approach to assembly automation, this completely revised second edition gives you the skill set you need not only to deliver that value, but to deliver it economically and on time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574446432
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/22/2005
Series:	Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing , #66
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction. Automatic Assembly Transfer Systems. Automatic Feeding and Orienting - Vibratory Feeders. Automatic Feeding and Orienting - Mechanical Feeders. Feed Tracks, Escapements, Parts-Placement Mechanisms, and Robots. Performance and Economics of Assembly Systems. Design for Manual Assembly. Product Design for High-Speed Automatic Assembly and Robot Assembly. Printed-Circuit-Board Assembly. Feasibility Study for Assembly Automation. Problems. Appendix A: Simple Method for the Determination of the Coefficient of Dynamic Friction. Appendix B: Out-of-Phase Vibratory Conveyors. Appendix C: Laboratory Experiments. Appendix D: Feeding and Orienting Techniques for Small Parts. Nomenclature. Index.

Editorial Reviews

ideal for students and lecturers of assembly automation.

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Text for professional seminars and upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on assembly automation in manufacturing and product design, and/or reference guide for manufacturing, product, design, industrial, and mechanical engineers seeking to improve productivity and competitiveness while reducing costs. Presents an analytical, yet practical, approach to assembly automation--introducing product design for ease of automatic, robotic, and manual assembly, as well as electronics (PCB) assembly. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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