A FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATIC DFA SYSTEM-DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Design for assembly (DFA) evaluation has proved to be a systematic approach in determining how well a product is designed from an assembly point of view. Proposed here is a framework for automating DFA evaluation procedure, a key step in achieving a concurrent design environment. Five modules required for this development are: assembly sequence generation; assembly features extraction; assembly code and other necessary operations generation; data manipulation and computation; and re-design suggestion. Partial implementation (linking DFA evaluation procedure with a feature based CAD system) of the framework is also presented.