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Accession Number
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ADA564700
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Title
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IFAB Smart Manufacturing Adapting Rapidly to Product Variants (SMARTV).
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Publication Date
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May 2012
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Media Count
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103p
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Personal Author
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B. Widmer D. Bourne K. Saitou P. Bose S. K. Gupta
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Abstract
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This one-year project developed and demonstrated a SMARTV iFAB Foundry, a single node within a larger, future iFAB Foundry network. Our work embodied the key idea of evolving a smart technology that can integrate design objectives with manufacturing realities and adapt rapidly to diverse product challenges. The SMARTV project focused on welding and assembly operations to support rapid manufacturing of custom military vehicles under the larger iFAB program. Our goal was to fabricate an HMMWV spaceframe with assembled attachments at least five times (5x) faster than the current best practices allow.
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Keywords
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Assembly lines
Automated process planning
Automation
Foundries
Ifab(Instant foundry adaptive through bits) program
Industrial engineering
Lessons learned
Rapid manufacturing
Toolchains
Welding
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Source Agency
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Non Paid ADAS
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NTIS Subject Category
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62 - Computers, Control & Information Theory
41G - Quality Control & Reliability
41J - Tooling, Machinery, & Tools
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Corporate Author
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Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA. Robotics Inst.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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Final rept. 20 May 2011-31 May 2012.
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NTIS Issue Number
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1303
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Contract Number
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FA8650-11-C-7128
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