The Role of Error Budgeting in the Use of Structurally Integrated Features for Aerospace Assembly

Odi, Randolph; Burley, Graham; Naing, Soe; Corbett, John

doi:10.4271/2000-01-3025

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“…Narahari et al (1999) advocate advancing tolerancing design to a preliminary design stage. In aerospace assembly system, Odi et al (2000) emphasize the importance of the design phase as the earliest opportunity to address product dimensional quality wherein the total transfer variation between parts accounts for the biggest portion of total product dimensional variation, and other detail geometrical variations, such as those from mating surfaces themselves, are rather small. At present, important attempts are underway to model product and process at a preliminary design phase for dimension control.…”

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Variation propagation modeling and analysis at preliminary design phase of multi‐station assembly systems

Wang

Ceglarek

2009

Assembly Automation

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PurposeDimensional variation management is a major challenge in multi‐station sheet metal assembly processes involving complex products such as automotive body and aircraft fuselage assemblies. Very few studies have explored it at a preliminary design phase taking into consideration effects of part deformation on variation propagation, since early design phase involves the development of imprecise design models with scant or incomplete product and process knowledge. The objective of this paper is to present a variation model which can be built into the preliminary design phase taking into consideration all of the existing interactions between flexible parts and tools in multi‐station sheet metal assembly process.Design/methodology/approachThe paper addresses this problem by first, presenting a beam‐based product and process model which shares the same data structure of the B‐Rep CAD models, and therefore can be embedded in CAD systems for automatic product skeletal design; second, determining the influence of part deformation, for various, differing joining and releasing schemes, on variation propagation; and third, utilizing this information to generate a vector‐based variation propagation model for multistation sheet metal assemblies.FindingsThis paper presents a beam‐based product and process model which shares the same data structure of the B‐Rep CAD models, and therefore can be embedded in CAD systems for automatic product skeletal design; determines the influence of part deformation, for various, differing joining and releasing schemes, on variation propagation; and utilizes this information to generate a vector‐based variation propagation model for multistation sheet metal assemblies.Originality/valueA truck cab assembly is presented to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed model over the state‐of‐the‐art approach used in industry for sheet metal assemblies.

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confidence: 99%