A feature-based prototype system for the evaluation and optimisation of manufacturing processes

Product concept and prototype flexibility in manufacturing: Implications for customer satisfaction

“…Prototyping tools can help identify technical design or interface issues (Lee, 1995). Feature based prototyping in early design stages can reveal product design and process selection issues (Gayretli and Abdalla, 1999). Internet-based product concept testing using visual depiction and animation can help identify customer preferences (Dahan and Srinivasan, 2000).…”

“…CF and PF are critical sub-dimensions of product development flexibility that may enhance product development outcomes and customer satisfaction (Dahan and Srinivasan, 2000;Gayretli and Abdalla, 1999). CF allows firms to generate and evaluate a variety of different product concepts.…”

Multi-Robot Assembly Strategies and Metrics

“…The method applied relationship primitives (e.g., “has,” “links,” and “uses”) between multiple parts and their respective features. This model was then expanded in works by other researchers (e.g., Gayretli and Abdalla (1999), van Holland and Bronsvoort (2000), and Ullah et al (2006)) to accommodate process optimization, alternative representation as numerical chains, and component-level abstractions.…”

Best Practices and Performance Metrics Using Force Control for Robotic Assembly

“…Other efforts to address the assembly problem have focused on modeling tasks for assessment and optimization. Such models are typically abstract in nature, and are used to describe solutions for design and scheduling problems through relational representations [27,28], component connections [29], assembly "intent" [30], and cumulative entropies [31].…”