Concurrent engineering for composites. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5545433

Wilkins, D J; Karbhari, V M; Henshaw, J M

The Total Quality Design (TQD) approach serves as a facilitation tool for the coupled decision making that is necessary for composites. The approach serves as a means of enabling the concurrent engineering of composites through the use of a composites design methodology, as well as the Composites Manufacturing and Design Guide (CMDG). This serves as a decision support system, enabling the design team to not only obtain pertinent information in the shortest possible time, but also serves through its discrimination stacks as a means of rejecting concepts that are not feasible with the customers needs and wants. This serves to reduce conflict. Actual case studies are described, and the methodology is further coupled with the TAGUCHI method, to enable efficient quality control in the RTM process. The methodology is structured so as to enable the design team to conquer barriers of communication, and work in an efficient manner for the successful realization of the design cycle. The approach and tools present a concurrent engineering approach to the application of the latest decision making management techniques to the product realization process for composites.

• Research Organization: Delaware Univ., Newark, DE (United States). Center for Composite Materials
• OSTI ID: 5545433
• Report Number(s): AD-A-244714/2/XAB; CNN: DAAL03-91-G-0004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360600* -- Other Materials
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
CONTROL
DECISION MAKING
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ENGINEERING
MANUFACTURING
MARKETING
MATERIALS
PLANNING
PROCESSING
QUALITY CONTROL