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Zusammenfassung More quality! more flexibility! and less costs seem to be the key to meeting the demands of the global marketplace. The secret to success in this arena lies in the expert execution of the critical tasks in the product definition stage. Prototyping is an essential part of this stage! yet can be very expensive. It must be planned well and use state-of-the-art rapid and virtual prototyping tools to accelerate the process. Emphasizing the important role of prototyping in product definition! Rapid Prototyping and Engineering Applications: A Toolbox for Prototype Development covers a wide spectrum of prototyping tools with over 400 figures that give you instant access to the concepts. The book discusses engineering procedures and the application of modern prototyping technologies! such as Rapid Prototyping (RP) and Virtual Prototyping (VP)! that quickly deliver new products with lower costs and higher quality. Extensive examples and case studies make the author's delineation of industrial practices easy to grasp. Practice exercises in each chapter develop problem-solving techniques and coverage of state-of-the-art RP technologies provides modern prototyping knowledge. And although the book highlights RP technologies extensively! it also explores other prototyping tools and methodologies! setting it apart as one of the few resources to cover both. It delineates the technologies required for well-planned prototyping that not only save money but decrease time to market. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Development of A Successful Product Product Prototyping and Its Impact Product Prototyping and Product Development Product Prototyping Prototype Planning and Management Product and Prototype Cost Estimation Prototype Design Methods Prototype Design Tools Paper Prototyping Learning from Nature Modeling and Virtual Prototyping Mathematical Modeling Modeling of Physical Systems Product Modeling Using Commercial Software for Virtual Prototyping Virtual Reality and Virtual Prototyping Materials Selection and Product Prototyping Prototyping Materials Modeling of Material Properties Modeling and Design of Materials and Structures Direct Digital Prototyping and Manufacturing Solid Models and Prototype Representation Reverse Engineering and Product Prototyping Prototyping and Manufacturing Using CNC Machining Fully Automated Digital Prototyping and Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Processes Rapid Prototyping Overview Rapid Prototyping Procedure Liquid Based RP Part Solid Based RP Processes Powder Based RP Processes Summary and Future RP Processes Building A Prototype Using Off-the-Shelf Components How to Decide What to Purchase? How to Find the Catalogs that Have the Needed Components? How to Ensure that the Purchased Components Will Work Together? Tolerance Analysis Tolerance Stack Analysis Assembly Slacks Process Capability Statistical Tolerance Analysis Case Study: Conceptual Design of A Chamber Cover Prototyping of Automated Systems Actuators Sensors Controllers and Analyzers Mechanisms Using Prototypes for Product Assessment Introduction to Design of Experiments Orthogonal Arrays Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) ANOVA Using Excel Quality Characteristic (QC) An Example: Optimization of A Prototype Laser Deposition Process Prototype Optimization Formulation of Engineering Problems for Optimization Optimization Using Differential Calculus Optimization Using Lagrange's Multiplier Method Optimization Using Microsoft Excel Case Study: Application of Optimization in Fixture Design Appendices ...
