TY - GEN
T1 - Design the angular feature for manufacturability with tolerance chart
AU - Xue, Jianbin
AU - Ji, Ping
N1 - Funding Information:
Hong Kong Government for the support of this project under
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2000 by ASME.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Many products have angular features for certain special functions. Although the design engineers have considered the capability of manufacturing process when they design the parts of a product, some hidden problems about the manufacturability of the angular features are still difficult to be discovered by most of the design engineers. In this paper tolerance charts are used to design the angular features for manufacturability. Using the tolerance chart for a simple tapered part, the work dimensions and tolerances at each operation stage of manufacturing are obtained. A very tight tolerance on adjacent surfaces is created because of the tapered feature. This problem will not be discovered until the tolerance chart is employed to analyze the designed tolerances and the operation sequence. Therefore, either the design of the tolerance or the process plan of the workpiece should be modified in order to fabricate the part at a small cost of manufacturing.
AB - Many products have angular features for certain special functions. Although the design engineers have considered the capability of manufacturing process when they design the parts of a product, some hidden problems about the manufacturability of the angular features are still difficult to be discovered by most of the design engineers. In this paper tolerance charts are used to design the angular features for manufacturability. Using the tolerance chart for a simple tapered part, the work dimensions and tolerances at each operation stage of manufacturing are obtained. A very tight tolerance on adjacent surfaces is created because of the tapered feature. This problem will not be discovered until the tolerance chart is employed to analyze the designed tolerances and the operation sequence. Therefore, either the design of the tolerance or the process plan of the workpiece should be modified in order to fabricate the part at a small cost of manufacturing.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2000-1053
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2000-1053
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85119968655
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 79
EP - 84
BT - Recent Advances in Design for Manufacture (DFM)
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2000
Y2 - 5 November 2000 through 10 November 2000
ER -