Publication Date

1995

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Lee, Kwan-Heng

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Industrial Engineering

LCSH

Quality control--Planning; Engineering inspection--Planning

Abstract

Inspection is one of the primary concerns in manufacturing industry. When the dimensional tolerance requirements of manufactured parts are tighter, inspection planning and execution becomes very important The inspection operation accounts for a fairly large portion of the manufacturing lead time of finished parts as well. In recent years, the coordinate measuring machines are widely used in industry to improve efficiency in inspection operation. For inspection planning, the strategy for measuring the dimensions of a part can be determined by considering the features that constitute a part In this research, an architecture for an automated inspection planning system with a feature-based representation is designed for automated inspection using coordinate measuring machines. A part is represented using a destructive solid geometry (DSG) tree structure with primitive geometric features. In the architecture, inspection primitives and datum planes are identified using the DSG data. It also includes a structure for generating necessary tolerance measures for a part The inspection plan for a given part is then generated by an expert system module. The generated inspection plan was demonstrated on a coordinate measuring machine for two test parts.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references (pages [87]-88).

Extent

xi, 154 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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