A Collaborative Design and Analysis Environment for Flexible Fixture

Abstract:

Designing a flexible fixture is much more complicated. In this paper a collaborative environment was introduced for flexible fixture design. The tasks involved in fixture design are analyzed and decomposed into five subtasks, which are assigned to workgroups by a project manager. The workgroups can be distributed in different departments or in different locations geographically. The framework of collaborate design environment is constructed. Each workgroup is responsible to a certain job. However, the information needed for flexible fixture design is shared among these workgroups. The information exchanging and management in the environment are expressed with a block diagram. Finally, an example of flexible fixture for manufacturing a thin-walled workpiece is employed to illustrate the efficiency of the collaborative environment.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 407-408)
• Pages: 225-229
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.407-408.225
• Online since: February 2009
• Authors: Wei Fang Chen, Jian Bin Xue, Pei Huang Lou
• Keywords: Collaborative Design, Digital Fixture Design, Flexible Fixture, Thin-Walled Workpiece

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