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Know-how management for sheet metal forming and assembling
Technical Paper
2000-05-0269
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Language:
English
Abstract
Aim of this paper is to present the design and implementation of
an object- oriented Web Application devoted to the Know-How
Management of the Sheet Metal Forming and Assembling operations for
industrial vehicles area.
The need for such Application is in the line of today''s
world of ever- shortening product life cycles, fast-moving markets
where Knowledge Management constitutes the competitive advantage in
the future of the companies for reacting to changing market
conditions worldwide.
In the near past, men were the depository of the information,
but the practical impossibility to keep everybody informed on all
the projects, highlighted the convenience to use many different
tools from diverse areas of expertise including databases to store
data and make them available in other similar applications to
different people at different levels of skill and experience.
In product and process design, the simultaneous engineering
techniques changed the design approach requiring a quantitative
assessment of the manufacturing feasibility of component design at
the conceptual stage.
In this context the access to an organic system of know-how
management, computer based, that quickly offers data and
information to assume the preliminary decisions in the process
design and process setup has been considered of fundamental
importance.
Those kinds of data are very diverse, in content and format,
representing, in synthesis what is called "Know How." The
way in which the know-how is managed becomes then the key factor of
any computer application.
The Application presented in this paper, concerning the stamping
and assembling areas, shows an original approach based on the
Object-Oriented techniques.
To define the conceptual model, data are organized in classes
connected by a father-child link. Each class can have a
well-defined role in the problem domain representing objects with
well-known technological meaning (component, sample, stamping
process, etc.). In each class technical data, images, graphics,
animations, files, simulation models and external links can be
managed.