Methods in Product Design

Index

A

Acidification, air, 7, 9, 15, 18–21

Advantages of cellular manufacturing, 34–35

AFEM. See Automatic feature extraction module,

AIM. See Automatic inspection module,

Annealing, simulated, cell formation, 46–47

Appropriate materials, 10–11

Artificial intelligence approaches, cell formation, 46

Assessment of sustainability, 12–13

material effect, 12

software, sustainability, 13

Automatic feature extraction module, 116–119

IGES file format, 116–117

STEP file format, 117–119

Automatic inspection module, 119–127

computer-aided design, computer-aided inspection, 121–122

database module, 120–121

inspection plan, 122–123

prismatic part orientation, 124

probe accessibility analysis, 124–127

B

B-spline curve, computer-aided design, ...