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Title: The Automated Assembly Team contributions to the APRIMED Agile Manufacturing Project

Abstract

The Automated Assembly Team of the APRIMED Project (abbreviated as A{prime}) consists of two parts: the Archimedes Project, which is an ongoing project developing automated assembly technology, and the A{prime} Robot Team. Archimedes is a second generation assembly planning system that both provides a general high-level assembly sequencing capability and, for a smaller class of products, facilitates automatic programming of a robotic workcell to assemble them. The A{prime} robot team designed, developed, and implemented a flexible robot workcell which served as the automated factory of the A{prime} project. In this document we briefly describe the role of automated assembly planning in agile manufacturing, and specifically describe the contributions of the Archimedes project and the A{prime} robot team to the A{prime} project. We introduce the concepts of the Archimedes automated assembly planning project, and discuss the enhancements to Archimedes which were developed in response to the needs of the A{prime} project. We also present the work of the A{prime} robot team in designing and developing the A{prime} robot workcell, including all tooling and programming to support assembly of the A{prime} discriminator devices. Finally, we discuss the process changes which these technologies have enabled in the A{prime} project.

Authors:
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  1. and others
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
90728
Report Number(s):
SAND-95-1340
ON: DE95015408; TRN: 95:017843
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jun 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES; 99 MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, LAW, MISCELLANEOUS; ROBOTS; MANUFACTURING; DESIGN; AUTOMATION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Citation Formats

Jones, R E, Ames, A L, and Calton, T L. The Automated Assembly Team contributions to the APRIMED Agile Manufacturing Project. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.2172/90728.
Jones, R E, Ames, A L, & Calton, T L. The Automated Assembly Team contributions to the APRIMED Agile Manufacturing Project. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/90728
Jones, R E, Ames, A L, and Calton, T L. 1995. "The Automated Assembly Team contributions to the APRIMED Agile Manufacturing Project". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/90728. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/90728.
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title = {The Automated Assembly Team contributions to the APRIMED Agile Manufacturing Project},
author = {Jones, R E and Ames, A L and Calton, T L},
abstractNote = {The Automated Assembly Team of the APRIMED Project (abbreviated as A{prime}) consists of two parts: the Archimedes Project, which is an ongoing project developing automated assembly technology, and the A{prime} Robot Team. Archimedes is a second generation assembly planning system that both provides a general high-level assembly sequencing capability and, for a smaller class of products, facilitates automatic programming of a robotic workcell to assemble them. The A{prime} robot team designed, developed, and implemented a flexible robot workcell which served as the automated factory of the A{prime} project. In this document we briefly describe the role of automated assembly planning in agile manufacturing, and specifically describe the contributions of the Archimedes project and the A{prime} robot team to the A{prime} project. We introduce the concepts of the Archimedes automated assembly planning project, and discuss the enhancements to Archimedes which were developed in response to the needs of the A{prime} project. We also present the work of the A{prime} robot team in designing and developing the A{prime} robot workcell, including all tooling and programming to support assembly of the A{prime} discriminator devices. Finally, we discuss the process changes which these technologies have enabled in the A{prime} project.},
doi = {10.2172/90728},
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number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995},
month = {Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995}
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