Setup Planning and Tolerance Analysis

Abstract

A computer-aided manufacturing planning (CAMP) system is introduced in this chapter. When product design information is identified, a production plan can be rapidly generated with comparison of alternatives. It is based on the concept of production and process similarity and the best-practice knowledge in the automotive industry. Therefore, it is the intention that the system is applied in the mass-customisation environment, i.e. achieving a mass-production economic goal with the flexibility of product design changes. It is a CAD integrated system with defining bill of process in three levels: feature, part, and machine levels. A tolerance-analysis-based automated setup planning strategy is developed to generate new production plans. The system is validated by several production cases.