Publisher's Synopsis
Manufacturing is one of the most exciting human endeavors. It's the process of turning designs into concrete physical objects, cost effectively (i.e., the efficient production of artifacts). After the advent of computers, automated manufacturing planning became an active research area. The manufacturing planning problem has been studied from many different perspectives and thousands of papers have been written about the subject. Manufacturing is undergoing major transformation due to the unforeseen challenges arising from the current trend of miniaturization, the emergence of new materials and the growing interaction between biologists and engineers to learn more from nature and living objects. The effective planning of a product's manufacture is critical to both its cost and delivery time. Recognition of this importance has motivated over thirty years of research into automated planning systems and generated a large literature covering many different manufacturing technologies. But complete automation has proved difficult in most manufacturing domains. However, as manufacturing hardware has evolved to become more automated and computer aided design software has been developed to support the creation of complex geometries; planning the physical fabrication of a virtual model is still a task that occupies thousands of engineers around the world, every day. Another perspective from which the manufacturing planning problem can be studied is to examine how it varies with different manufacturing domains (e.g., machining, sheet metal bending, injection molding, and assembly). Different manufacturing domains have different requirements and approaches to decomposition of the planning problem. Novel Processes for Advanced Manufacturing attempts to bring together selected recent advances, tools, application and new ideas in manufacturing systems. It addresses issues essential to modern manufacturing, ranging from traditional topics such as casting, forming, machining, and joining, to advanced topics such as the fabrication of nanomaterials. Comprehensive coverage of relevant engineering fundamentals and traditional as well as advanced applications of manufacturing processes and operations. It provides a comprehensive collection of papers on the latest fundamental and applied industrial research. The book will be of great interest to those involved in manufacturing engineering, systems and management and those involved in manufacturing research. Manufacturing is one of the most exciting human endeavors. It's the process of turning designs into concrete physical objects, cost effectively (i.e., the efficient production of artifacts). After the advent of computers, automated manufacturing planning became an active research area. The manufacturing planning problem has been studied from many different perspectives and thousands of papers have been written about the subject. Manufacturing is undergoing major transformation due to the unforeseen challenges arising from the current trend of miniaturization, the emergence of new materials and the growing interaction between biologists and engineers to learn more from nature and living objects. The effective planning of a product's manufacture is critical to both its cost and delivery time. Recognition of this importance has motivated over thirty years of research into automated planning systems and generated a large literature covering many different manufacturing technologies. But complete automation has proved difficult in most manufacturing domains. However, as manufacturing hardware has evolved to become more automated and computer aided design software has been developed to support the creation of complex geometries; planning the physical fabrication of a virtual model is still a task that occupies thousands of engineers around the world, every day. Another perspective from which the manufacturing planning problem can be studied is to examine how it varies with different manufacturing domains (e.g., machining, sheet metal bending, injection molding, and assembly). Different manufacturing domains have different requirements and approaches to decomposition of the planning problem. Novel Processes for Advanced Manufacturing attempts to bring together selected recent advances, tools, application and new ideas in manufacturing systems. It addresses issues essential to modern manufacturing, ranging from traditional topics such as casting, forming, machining, and joining, to advanced topics such as the fabrication of nanomaterials. Comprehensive coverage of relevant engineering fundamentals and traditional as well as advanced applications of manufacturing processes and operations. It provides a comprehensive collection of papers on the latest fundamental and applied industrial research. The book will be of great interest to those involved in manufacturing engineering, systems and management and those involved in manufacturing research. Manufacturing is one of the most exciting human endeavors. It's the process of turning designs into concrete physical objects, cost effectively (i.e., the efficient production of artifacts). After the advent of computers, automated manufacturing planning became an active research area. The manufacturing planning problem has been studied from many different perspectives and thousands of papers have been written about the subject. Manufacturing is undergoing major transformation due to the unforeseen challenges arising from the current trend of miniaturization, the emergence of new materials and the growing interaction between biologists and engineers to learn more from nature and living objects. The effective planning of a product's manufacture is critical to both its cost and delivery time. Recognition of this importance has motivated over thirty years of research into automated planning systems and generated a large literature covering many different manufacturing technologies. But complete automation has proved difficult in most manufacturing domains. However, as manufacturing hardware has evolved to become more automated and computer aided design software has been developed to support the creation of complex geometries; planning the physical fabrication of a virtual model is still a task that occupies thousands of engineers around the world, every day. Another perspective from which the manufacturing planning problem can be studied is to examine how it varies with different manufacturing domains (e.g., machining, sheet metal bending, injection molding, and assembly). Different manufacturing domains have different requirements and approaches to decomposition of the planning problem. Novel Processes for Advanced Manufacturing attempts to bring together selected recent advances, tools, application and new ideas in manufacturing systems. It addresses issues essential to modern manufacturing, ranging from traditional topics such as casting, forming, machining, and joining, to advanced topics such as the fabrication of nanomaterials. Comprehensive coverage of relevant engineering fundamentals and traditional as well as advanced applications of manufacturing processes and operations. It provides a comprehensive collection of papers on the latest fundamental and applied industrial research. The book will be of great interest to those involved in manufacturing engineering, systems and management and those involved in manufacturing research.
