Extended liaison as an interface between product and process model in assembly

Swain, Abinash Kumar and Sen, Dibakar and Gurumoorthy, B (2014) Extended liaison as an interface between product and process model in assembly. In: ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, 30 (5). pp. 527-545.

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Abstract

This paper describes the use of liaison to better integrate product model and assembly process model so as to enable sharing of design and assembly process information in a common integrated form and reason about them. Liaison can be viewed as a set, usually a pair, of features in proximity with which process information can be associated. A liaison is defined as a set of geometric entities on the parts being assembled and relations between these geometric entities. Liaisons have been defined for riveting, welding, bolt fastening, screw fastening, adhesive bonding (gluing) and blind fastening processes. The liaison captures process specific information through attributes associated with it. The attributes are associated with process details at varying levels of abstraction. A data structure for liaison has been developed to cluster the attributes of the liaison based on the level of abstraction. As information about the liaisons is not explicitly available in either the part model or the assembly model, algorithms have been developed for extracting liaisons from the assembly model. The use of liaison is proposed to enable both the construction of process model as the product model is fleshed out, as well as maintaining integrity of both product and process models as the inevitable changes happen to both design and the manufacturing environment during the product lifecycle. Results from aerospace and automotive domains have been provided to illustrate and validate the use of liaisons. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to the PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND
Keywords:	Liaison; Assembly; Information modeling; Product model; Process model; Associativity
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2014 07:34
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2014 07:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/49527

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