In order to reduce manufacturing cost and to improve the operational efficiency, some
factories in the sheet-metal-related manufacturing industry centralize the production and …

As automobile body panels are one kind of sheet metal part with groups of free form
surfaces, the process planning is more complicated than common sheet metal stam** to …

In this work an intelligent system pertaining to sheet metal part and process design has been
developed, storing knowledge and prescribing ways to use this knowledge according to the …

Automated manufacturability evaluation of a given design is a key requirement in realizing
complete integration of design and process planning. It would still be better to control the …

Cost control has to be integrated in the product development cycle because it requires
information from the entire product development cycle and it can generate information for …

A recently proposed reference model indicates the use of structured information as the basis
for the control of design and manufacturing processes. The model is used as a basis to …

The focus of this publication is a review of the state of the art in tolerance analysis, synthesis,
and transfer for geometric and dimensional tolerances in sheet metal forming and the …

Sheet metal is one of the most frequently used primary manufacturing methods to produce
different variety (shape and size) of components. The production of these sheet metal parts …

In this work, the interdependencies of different metal cutting parameters are examined. In
order to ensure competitiveness in the field of manufacturing, the quality, productivity and …

The increasing versatility in order characteristics calls for planning and control systems that
are able to evolve in time. Traditional hierarchical systems are usually based on a function …