Abstract

Design drawings embody, in selected components and tolerance specifications, product function and costs. They have also a great integrating potential inside the company as they affect every function involved in product development. In this paper an industrial application is presented in the field of automotive industry; it demonstrates that the functional dimensioning analysis, using GD&T design tools, provides a better product design at maximum allowable tolerances and, enhancing the understanding of product function at any level in the company, is a basic vehicle of interfunctional integration and a key factor in Concurrent Engineering practice.

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