What you'll learn:
- Learn about the basic concepts of Designing for assembly
- Importance of smooth assembly in design process
- How to design for better insertion, alignment and reduction of parts
- Design features for mistake proofing
- Constraint based design approach
- What are redundant constraints?
- What is Exact, minimum and Over constraint
Designing a mechanical systems involves many considerations . From Functional requirements, Aesthetics, Durability to Manufacturing and Assembly with assembly being a key aspect in terms of performance and cost.
Designing a system with assembly in mind requires an approach which focusses on the ease and speed of assembly . In a production setup where Time is money , efficient assemblies are very important .
Learning about how to plan and design systems so that they can be easily manufactured and assembled is one of the key tasks for a design engineers. This course introduces the key concepts to be considered when designing for assembly.
You will Learn :
- The context of assemblies in larger product development - product architecture
- What is modularity in assembly
- Importance of assembly ease - Costs associated
- Generic rules of Thumb and affect of Tolerances
- Part count reduction
- Handling , Insertion , Self aligning features
- Poka yoke features
- Case studies in Designing for assembly
Utilizing degrees of freedom or strategically constraining them is a design philosophy used to design precise and optimally constrained systems.
- What are redundant constraints in systems, structures
- When are they useful and when they are not?
- What is exact kinematic constraint assembly?
- Nesting force and constraining a plate in 2D
- Case studies and examples of the concept applied in practice
Learn about key fundamentals to keep in mind when designing for mechanical assembly and practices to inculcate , errors to avoid in practice.
Learn a new way of thinking about mechanical systems in terms of constraints and how to effectively utilize them for function and assembly.
In this 2 in 1 course covering key insightful concepts which can be put directly into practice by design engineers.
