Advanced Tolerancing Techniques

Advanced Tolerancing Techniques

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive coverage of new developments in geometric dimensional tolerancing and statistical tolerancing, and to focus on the use of these techniques in a CAD/CAM/CMM environment. The authors explore and explain tolerancing from its history and fundamentals to state-of-the-art techniques. They also describe specialized applications of tolerancing in particular industries, inclduing automobiles, electronics and aerospace.

Dieses Buch ist ein idealer Seminarbegleiter für Maschinenbauer und Wirtschaftsingenieure. Schwerpunktmäßig werden weiterentwickelte Techniken zur Toleranzanalyse besprochen, wobei gleichzeitig der Grundstein gelegt wird für computerisierte Analysemethoden. (11/97) Partial table of contents:
TOLERANCING TECHNIQUES: OVERVIEW AND FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGY.
Dimensional Tolerancing Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond (H. Voelcker).
Manual Tolerance Charting (W. Krag).
MATHEMATICAL DEFINITIONS AND THOERETICAL STUDIES.
Concurrent Tolerancing for Accuracy and Cost (M. Sfantsikopoulos).
Tolerance Analysis and Synthesis in Variational Design (J. Dong & Y. Shi).
APPLICATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES.
Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Function (R. Weill).
CATCH: Computer-Aided Tolerance Charting (G. Britton & K. Whybrew).
Nontraditional Tolerancing and Inspection for Process Control (M. Buckingham).
Index.

HONG-CHAO ZHANG, PhD, is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University, Texas, USA. He received his PhD in manufacturing engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, and his MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark. Dr. Zhang has supervised many research projects, including projects funded by the National Science Foundation. He has published one previous book, six book chapters, and more than 70 refereed articles in a variety of international journals and other open literature.

Since the 1960s, when engineering science replaced practice-oriented teaching in most American engineering colleges, the teaching of dimensional tolerancing has disappeared as a part of the training of industrial design and manufacturing engineers. Manufacturers adjusted to this lack of training either by instituting in-house training programs or by subcontracting dimensional tolerancing work to specialty firms. When computer-aided design (CAD) prompted a return to the practice-oriented teaching approach in the mid-1980s, tolerancing was not restored as part of most curricula. Part of the reason for this has been the lack of a suitable advanced research/reference volume that treats recent improvements in tolerancing techniques in a manner compatible with CAD, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and coordinated measuring machine (CMM) based inspection. Advanced Tolerancing Techniques is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of new developments in geometric dimensional tolerancing and statistical tolerancing, and to focus on the use of these techniques in a CAD/CAM/CMM environment. Editor Hong-Chao Zhang has assembled a team of internationally recognized experts in every aspect of tolerancing theory, techniques, and applications. These authors explore and explain tolerancing from its history and fundamentals to state-of-the-art techniques. They also describe specialized applications of tolerancing in particular industries, including automobiles, electronics, and aerospace. For product design, manufacturing, and R&D engineer, as well as production managers, this one-stop resource unifies the disparate aspects of the discipline and is the only source for completely up-to-date and authoritative information on the latest tolerancing techniques. It is also an important reference for graduate students and CAD/CAM/CAPP software developers.

Since the 1960s, when engineering science replaced practice-oriented teaching in most American engineering colleges, the teaching of dimensional tolerancing has disappeared as a part of the training of industrial design and manufacturing engineers. Manufacturers adjusted to this lack of training either by instituting in-house training programs or by subcontracting dimensional tolerancing work to specialty firms. When computer-aided design (CAD) prompted a return to the practice-oriented teaching approach in the mid-1980s, tolerancing was not restored as part of most curricula. Part of the reason for this has been the lack of a suitable advanced research/reference volume that treats recent improvements in tolerancing techniques in a manner compatible with CAD, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and coordinated measuring machine (CMM) based inspection.

Advanced Tolerancing Techniques is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of new developments in geometric dimensional tolerancing and statistical tolerancing, and to focus on the use of these techniques in a CAD/CAM/CMM environment. Editor Hong-Chao Zhang has assembled a team of internationally recognized experts in every aspect of tolerancing theory, techniques, and applications. These authors explore and explain tolerancing from its history and fundamentals to state-of-the-art techniques. They also describe specialized applications of tolerancing in particular industries, including automobiles, electronics, and aerospace.

For product design, manufacturing, and R&D engineers, as well as production managers, this one-stop resource unifies the disparate aspects of the discipline and is the only source for completely up-to-date and authoritative information on the latest tolerancing techniques. It is also an important reference for graduate students and CAD/CAM/CAPP software developers.

Advanced Tolerancing Techniques covers the following topics:

• Parametric tolerancing
• Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• Tolerance chain/chart
• Statistical tolerancing
• Mathematical definition and modeling/li>
• Standardized tolerancing
• Computerized tolerancing
• Tolerance representation within CAD models
• Automated tolerance analysis and synthesis
• Tolerance design/optimization
• Tolerancing issues for inspection planning
• Tolerance analysis for process planning and assembly
• CMM sampling and form-fitting