Integrated Manufacturing System for Precision Press Tooling |
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Authors: | S Chaturvedi V Allada |
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Affiliation: | (1) Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, Engineering Management Department, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, USA, US |
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Abstract: | The press tooling industry, characterised by many small-scale job-shops, is facing an increasingly competitive global market.
This comes at a time when there is a shortage of experienced process planners and unavailability of affordable CAD/CAM systems
that could provide an integrated solution for manufacturing sheet metal tooling. Many commercially available CAD/CAM systems
are either too expensive or too narrow in scope, in the sense that they provide only point solutions. The design of press
tools and its manufacturing functions are highly specialised and knowledge-intensive in nature. This paper presents a framework
and the implementation details of an integrated system that has been developed for a local sheet metal tooling company specialising
in precision punches and dies. A PC-based system has been implemented on an AutoCAD platform using the Autolisp programming
language. |
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Keywords: | ,Integrated manufacturing, NC programs, Press tools, Process planning |
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