Abstract
The selection of proper materials for a structural component is critical in engineering design. Existing design procedures may currently be sufficient, especially where experience exists, but fierce industrial competition is spurring the search for improved methods and tools. The main drivers are quality, life-cycle cost, and time-to-market. Improved design efficiency and accuracy may have an enormous impact on the economic viability of the final product. The use of computer-aided systems can assist the designer in selecting the ap- propriate material these may potentially reduce product cost and time-to-market while assisting the concur- rent engineering activities, thereby resolving problems related to materials presented during the initial phase of design. This paper focuses on specific issues such as material selection at early design stage. In this paper material selection algorithm is developed using fuzzy logic technique for selection of proper material from database as per design engineers’ criteria. The information obtained from the selection algorithm is ex- changed through a properly secured web page through pure internet communication to different users in the enterprise so that it can create concurrent engineering environment throughout the product life cycle.
Highlights
In the Concurrent Engineering (CE) environment, techniques, algorithms and software tools are provided to allow designers and developers to interact with each other effectively and efficiently
This paper focuses on specific issues such as material selection at early design stage
The information obtained from the selection algorithm is exchanged through a properly secured web page through pure internet communication to different users in the enterprise so that it can create concurrent engineering environment throughout the product life cycle
Summary
In the Concurrent Engineering (CE) environment, techniques, algorithms and software tools are provided to allow designers and developers to interact with each other effectively and efficiently. Material selection is one of the most important activeties for a product development process. In the modern design and manufacturing environment, such as, newly developed CE methodology, material selection plays as important role as other activities in the total design model such as market investigation, product design specification, component design, design analysis, manu- facture and assembly is shown in Figure 1 [1]. The performance of materials is important in terms of service conditions, processing and its economic, the availability of candidate materials, the company’s make or buy decision for the system components; the customer preferences; and most importantly, the total life-cycle cost. The design engineer is responsible for selecting relevant properties and assessing the importance of the selected properties based on the requirements of a particular application. The material selection system assess the suitability of all materials in the database, eliminates unsuitable materials from further consideration, and gives a final ranking to all of the suitable materials
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