Accession Number:

ADA564700

Title:

iFAB Smart Manufacturing Adapting Rapidly to Product Variants (SMARTV)

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 20 May 2011-31 May 2012

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA ROBOTICS INST

Personal Author(s):

• Bourne, David
• Gupta, S. K.
• Saitou, Kazu
• Bose, Prasanta
• Widmer, Brandon

Report Date:

2012-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

103.0

Abstract:

This one-year project developed and demonstrated a SMARTV iFAB Foundry, a single node within a larger, future iFAB Foundry network. Our work embodied the key idea of evolving a smart technology that can integrate design objectives with manufacturing realities and adapt rapidly to diverse product challenges. The SMARTV project focused on welding and assembly operations to support rapid manufacturing of custom military vehicles under the larger iFAB program. Our goal was to fabricate an HMMWV spaceframe with assembled attachments at least five times 5x faster than the current best practices allow.

Descriptors:

• *FOUNDRIES
• *INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
• ASSEMBLY LINES
• AUTOMATION
• LESSONS LEARNED
• WELDING

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems
• Machinery and Tools

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE