Abstract: Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) analysis saves time and reduces production costs by anticipating manufacturing problems at a product’s design stage. Performing manufacturing analysis of a design ...

Abstract: The current paper discusses a fundamentally new approach to defining and finding interactions in computer-aided design (CAD) forms or features. Feature classes are defined using a high-level ...

Abstract: This paper describes an expert system for a class of automated cutting operations which are of practical use in the offshore manufacturing industry. These operations include plasma cutting, ...

Abstract: Shape deposition manufacturing (SDM) is a solid freeform fabrication (SFF) methodology for automatically building up material layers to form three-dimensional, complex-shaped, multi-material structures. ...