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Design For Manufacturing & Assembly' Questions

The document discusses design for manufacturing and assembly principles. It asks questions about unit events in manufacturing, how manufacturing costs increase with tighter tolerances, and why design for assembly should be considered before design for manufacture. It defines terms like alpha symmetry, beta symmetry, and total angle of symmetry and asks how they apply to different assembly examples. It also discusses how to calculate theoretical assembly times and design efficiency using Boothroyd & Dewhurst methods and how design for disassembly has impacted recent design for assembly advances.

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Design For Manufacturing & Assembly' Questions

The document discusses design for manufacturing and assembly principles. It asks questions about unit events in manufacturing, how manufacturing costs increase with tighter tolerances, and why design for assembly should be considered before design for manufacture. It defines terms like alpha symmetry, beta symmetry, and total angle of symmetry and asks how they apply to different assembly examples. It also discusses how to calculate theoretical assembly times and design efficiency using Boothroyd & Dewhurst methods and how design for disassembly has impacted recent design for assembly advances.

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Design for Manufacturing & Assembly Questions

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. With respect to manufacturing processes, explain what is meant by the term unit event. Explain how the unit event is related to design for manufacture. Why does the manufacturing cost increase as the tolerances get smaller and the surface finish finer? Explain why the graph of drilling cost against hole depth departs from linear and accelerates after L/D = 3. Discuss what is meant by the expression we throw it over the wall to be productionised. Explain how this could be overcome. Explain why at the design/verification stage of a product the cost expenditure may only be 20%, yet the committed cost can be as high as 80%. Relate this to the comment we throw it over the wall to be productionised. Explain why design for assembly (DFA) should be considered before design of manufacture (DFM). State the three questions proposed by Boothroyd & Dewhurst for calculating the minimum number of parts in an assembly. What other questions have been added to these and why. Explain what is meant by the following terms: alpha symmetry, beta symmetry and total angle of symmetry.

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Determine the values of alpha, beta and total angle of symmetry for the following cases: 10. 11. 12. a shoe on a foot the top on a pen a coin in a slot a basketball through a hoop.

Explain what part attributes influence manual handling and insertion times. State and explain the B & D expression used to calculate the design efficiency. A drive motor, consisting of 6 parts, takes 46s to assemble manually. An analysis shows that the theoretical number of parts is 4. Calculate the B & D design efficiency for this motor and comment on the significance of the result. Explain how design for disassembly has lead to questioning of some of the design for assembly advances of recent years.

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