Are you often encountering design changes or process changes to enable an efficient (dis)assembly process? Are you designing products but wondering if they can be easily be (dis)assembled? Or are you a software provider wanting to add Design-for-Assembly (DfA) functionality to your solution?
Incompatibility between a product design and an assembly environment leads to time-consuming and costly iterations between production and design, e.g. changing part connections, redesigning jigs or changing assembly sequences. Joining this project will enable you to reduce the time it takes to prepare a product design for production.
Project goal
The goal is to set up an automatic, CAD-based Design-for-Assembly (DfA) assessment of product designs, while taking into account the assembly environment. The assessment consists of a set of DfA rules that evaluate the fitness for assembly, the time and the cost of the assembly process.
The assembly environment is captured in these rules to reflect the specifics of your production process. We will enable you to apply state-of-the-art DfA principles on your CAD design leading to a faster and cheaper product development process.
We will develop algorithms that can automatically evaluate DfA rules based on a product CAD. These algorithms can be integrated into an open-source FreeCAD tool or a CAD plugin for the commercial CAD software you use.
Would you also like to participate in this project?
ADFA_IRVA is an industrial research project. We are looking for companies that want to be part of the user group and work with us to valorise the project.
Interested? Fill in the form below and we will contact you as soon as possible.
