Abstract
The press tooling industry, characterized by many small-scale job-shops, is facing an increasingly competitive global market. This comes at a time when there is a shortage of experienced process planners and unavailability of affordable CAD/CAM systems that could provide an integrated solution for manufacturing sheet metal tooling. Many commercially available CAD/CAM systems are either too expensive or too narrow in scope, in the sense that they provide only point solutions. The design of press tools and its manufacturing functions are highly specialized and knowledge-intensive in nature. This paper presents a framework and the implementation details of an integrated system that has been developed for a local sheet metal tooling company specializing in precision punches and dies. A PC-based system has been implemented on an AutoCAD platform using the Auto lisp programming language.
Recommended Citation
S. Chaturvedi and V. Allada, "Integrated Manufacturing System for Precision Press Tooling," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 356 - 365, Springer, Jan 1999.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s001700050078
Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0268-3768
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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Publication Date
01 Jan 1999
