 Different aspects in design and development of flexible fixtures: review and future directionsSuman Gothwal and Tilak Raj International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2017, vol. 26, issue 3, 386-410 Abstract: Widely used in manufacturing, fixtures have a direct impact upon product manufacturing quality, productivity and cost. The cost of designing and fabricating fixtures can amount to 10 ± 20% of the total manufacturing system cost. To reduce manufacturing costs, a flexible fixture system should be designed to be competent in fixturing as many workpieces as possible. This paper carries out a literature review of different aspects in design and development of flexible fixture. This review considers introduction and literature review with significant researches and requirements of fixtures over time, steps of fixture design along with their classification review has been presented to give a deep and quick understanding of fixture design and its criteria. Important and relevant research carried out in the field of CAFD using intelligent approaches that have been utilised in automation has been reviewed. The shortcomings of the existing research studies are stated and future directions are proposed. Keywords: flexible manufacturing systems; FMS; fixturing; flexible fixtures; modular fixtures; computer-aided fixture design; CAFD; literature review; intelligent auomation. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijsoma:v:26:y:2017:i:3:p:386-410 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Services and Operations Management from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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