The unchangeable need of securing and locating parts during different manufacturing processes turned the fixtures to key elements in many part production industries. The iterations between design engineers and manufacturing planners because of late collision detection of the part/fixtures with robots cost a lot of time and money. The lead-time can be reduced by developing tools and/or methods f...

As design patterns become more mainstream, various IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments) and UML modelling so ftware environments have begun to introduce support for design patterns. For example, developers browse through a catalog of design patterns and drop one onto a UML workspace, whereupon various classes appear with the appropriate methods and attributes in serted. This paper explor...

This paper describes the unique features of a set of IBM 7090 programs which provide design assistance to engineers who use Solid logic Technology. These programs were applied in the design of the IBM System/360.

During last years Adaptive Automation (AA) has received considerable attention in the academic community, in labs, in technology companies, because of the large use of automation in several domains (e.g. aviation; manufacturing; medicine; road, rail, and maritime transportation). AA is a potential solution to the problems associated with humanautomation interaction, regardless of the complexity...

An experimental study of the effect of fixtureworkpiece conformability on system static stability is presented. Conformability is defined as the geometric similarity between the workpiece and the smallest polyhedron fit over all fixture-workpiece contacts. Two metrics, C1 and C2, are introduced to quantify global and local conformability, respectively. The elastic displacement of the workpiece ...