A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design for Assembly

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A study showed that the two most important obstacles to assembly automation were that product designs are generally not assembly oriented and that most components cannot be handled automatically without problems. In the view of the importance of well designed product with high assemblability, a tool must be developed to pre-evaluate a product during design phase whether it can be assembled with minimum efforts. In this research, a prototype expert system for DFA has been developed that can be used to advise the designer of difficulties that his/her design presents for automatic handling during manufacture. This rule-based system has been implemented on an IBM personal computer, using the Texas Instruments' Personal Consultant Plus.