Decision support tools with an economic flavor
This paper discusses criteria for selecting analytical support tools for manufacturing engineering in the early phases of product development, and the lessons learned at Sandia National Laboratories in selecting and applying these tools. The IPPD (Integrated Product and Process Design) process requires manufacturing process developers to be involved earlier than ever before in product development. Operating in an IPPD environment, Sandia`s manufacturing engineers were required to develop early estimates of the cost and performance of manufacturing plans. In early pre-production, there are very little actual data on manufacturing processes and almost no detailed data on the performance of various manufacturing process steps. The manufacturing engineer needs the capability to analyze various manufacturing process flows over a large set of assumptions involving capacity, resource requirements (equipment, labor, material, utilities,...), yields, product designs, etc. If the manufacturing process involves many process steps, or if there are multiple products in a single manufacturing area that share resources, or there are multiple part starts resulting in merged flow for final assembly, then this analysis capability must somehow be mechanized. This situation led them to look to modeling and simulation tools for a solution. Example analyses of manufacturing issues for two product sets in the early phases of product development are presented.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 532518
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-97-1960C; CONF-971071-1; ON: DE97008363; BR: DP010202100; TRN: AHC29721%%68
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Integrated product and process design symposium, Fort Worth, TX (United States), 27-29 Oct 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1997]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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