TY - GEN
T1 - Using rapid manufacturability analysis tools to enhance design-for-manufacturing training in engineering education
AU - Lynn, Roby
AU - Jablokow, Kathryn
AU - Reddy, Nithin
AU - Saldana, Christopher
AU - Tucker, Tommy
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Kurfess, Thomas
AU - Williams, Christopher
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Engineering students are often unaware of manufacturing challenges introduced during the design process. Students tend to design parts that are either very difficult or impossible to manufacture because they are unaware of the intricacies and limitations of the manufacturing processes available. Design for manufacturability (DFM) education must be improved to help address this issue. This work discusses a vision for the implementation of a rapid method for facilitating DFM education in terms of subtractive and additive manufacturing processes. The goal is to teach students about how their designs impact the ease and cost of manufacturing, in addition to giving them knowledge and confidence to move fluidly between additive and subtractive manufacturing mindsets. For subtractive manufacturing, this is accomplished through a highperformancecomputing accelerated and parallelized trajectory planning software package that enables students to visualize the subtractive manufacturability of the parts they design as rapidly as they get feedback when using additive manufacturing processes. Implementation of the subtractive manufacturability analysis tool in a sophomore-level design class is presented, along with the assessment of the students' conceptual manufacturing-related understanding.
AB - Engineering students are often unaware of manufacturing challenges introduced during the design process. Students tend to design parts that are either very difficult or impossible to manufacture because they are unaware of the intricacies and limitations of the manufacturing processes available. Design for manufacturability (DFM) education must be improved to help address this issue. This work discusses a vision for the implementation of a rapid method for facilitating DFM education in terms of subtractive and additive manufacturing processes. The goal is to teach students about how their designs impact the ease and cost of manufacturing, in addition to giving them knowledge and confidence to move fluidly between additive and subtractive manufacturing mindsets. For subtractive manufacturing, this is accomplished through a highperformancecomputing accelerated and parallelized trajectory planning software package that enables students to visualize the subtractive manufacturability of the parts they design as rapidly as they get feedback when using additive manufacturing processes. Implementation of the subtractive manufacturability analysis tool in a sophomore-level design class is presented, along with the assessment of the students' conceptual manufacturing-related understanding.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85007314079
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2016-59295
DO - 10.1115/DETC2016-59295
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85007314079
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 18th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 13th International Conference on Design Education; 9th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2016
Y2 - 21 August 2016 through 24 August 2016
ER -