ME 317 Design for Manufacturing

Virtual Machine shop – An interesting site with some videos and animations. Even has audio instructions on how to correctly pronounce 0.7 inch (measurement section)

http://jjjtrain.kanabco.com/vms/library.html

buy parts on line

http://www.emachineshop.com/

Drill Bit article from Modern Machine Shop

http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/099805.html

Day 14 Turning Turning PowerPoint

Day 15 Grinding Grinding Powerpoint , Milling Milling Powerpoint

Day 16 Sand Casting Sand Casting PowerPoint

Gartland Foundry of Terre Haute

http://www.gartlandfoundry.com/home.htm

Steel Founder’s Society of America

http://www.sfsa.org/

An example in steel casting good stuff

http://www.sfsa.org/tutorials/cs1_text/Castings_01.html

Ductile Iron Society

http://www.ductile.org/

Video of sand casting

http://www.designinsite.dk/htmsider/pb0211wmv.htm

NADCA (Die Casting)

http://www.diecasting.org/oem/

Modern Casting Magazine

http://www.moderncasting.com/

Pictures of patterns, and how cores fit into castings

http://www.nc-directions.com/pattern.html#pics

Want to do it yourself?

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/index.html

Day 17 Investment Casting

Good info on design (See “Special Interest” and “Library” and “2D1 Designing for Investment Casting”)

http://www.hitchiner.com/home.html

Day 18 Die Casting Die Casting PowerPoint

NADCA North America Die Casting Association

http://www.diecasting.org/default.asp

Chicago White Metals (some examples and FAQ)

http://www.cwmdiecast.com/index.htm

Day 19 Rapid Prototyping Rapid Prototyping PowerPoint (table handout)

A good site for overview of the industry and specifics on the processes

http://home.att.net/~castleisland/home.htm

A good Primer on the topic from Penn State (revised 2002)

http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/rapidpro/primer/chapter2.htm

Source of some OK videos on rapid prototyping

http://www.acucast.com/multimedia/

More Primers

stereolithography

http://www.newslettersonline.com/user/user.fas/s=63/fp=3/tp=47?T=open_article,496863&P=article

laser sintering

http://www.newslettersonline.com/user/user.fas/s=63/fp=3/tp=47?T=open_article,498829&P=article

fused deposition modeling

http://www.newslettersonline.com/user/user.fas/s=63/fp=3/tp=47?T=open_article,501712&P=article

three dimensional printing

http://www.newslettersonline.com/user/user.fas/s=63/fp=3/tp=47?T=open_article,504023&P=article

Multijet

http://www.newslettersonline.com/user/user.fas/s=63/fp=3/tp=47?T=open_article,514108&P=article

Day 20 Injection Molding Injection Molding PowerPoint

Directory of Plastics Design Guides on the Wed (from SME)

http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/communities.pl?/communities/techgroups/design_plastics/plastic_design_guides.htm&&&SME&

Society of the Plastics Industry

http://www.socplas.org/index.htm

Injection Molding Magazine

http://www.immnet.com/

GE plastics design guide

http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/html/DFM%20Website/GE%20Plastics.pdf

Industrial designers version of how to design with plastics

http://www.idsa-mp.org/proc/plastic/injection/injection_design_2.htm

Day 22 Rotamolding, Blow Molding, Thermoforming PowerPoint

Rotational Molding companies

http://www.ferryindustries.com/rot_mold.html

http://www.hardigg.com/about_hardigg/rotomolding.htm

Thermoforming Design guide

http://www.thermoform.com/designtoc.htm

Day 23 Plastic Assembly – Joining, Snap Fits, Living Hinges, Compliant mechanisms PowerPoint

TWI Guide to plastic welding

http://www.twi.co.uk/j32k/unprotected/band_1/neuk_plasguide.html

Compliant Mechanisms

http://research.et.byu.edu/llhwww/intro/advantage.html

Living Hinge

http://www.machinedesign.com/ASP/viewSelectedArticle.asp?strArticleId=57025&strSite=MDSite&Screen=CURRENTISSUE

http://www.immnet.com/articles?article=1951

Day 24 Welding Metals Welding PowerPoint

http://www.weldingengineer.com/

Day 25 Design for Assembly (DFA Power Point)

Good Overview

http://deed.ryerson.ca/~fil/t/dfmdfa.html

Boothroyd-Dewhurst

http://www.dfma.com/

Lucas Method (Teamset)

http://www.teamset.com/design-for-assembly-2.html

Day 26 Poke Yoke Mistake Proofing PowerPoint

Great Intro to Poke Yoke

http://www.campbell.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/pokayoke.shtml

powerpoint

http://www.campbell.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/grout.html

examples

http://www.mistakeproofing.com/Buy_Books/Example_set_1/example_set_1.html

http://www.assuredquality.com/about_mistake-proofing.htm

Day 27 Lean Manufacturing (Lean PowerPoint)

Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

7 Wastes Link http://www.emsstrategies.com/dm090203article2.html

Womack Link http://www.lean.org/WhatsLean/Principles.cfm#specify

Product Structure Product structure PowerPoint

Day 28/29Statistical Process Control – Control Charts PowerPoint

Wonderful brief tutorial on control charts (lots of other good stuff on that site as well)

http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/tutorials/qctools/homepg.htm

Good .ppt from the prof listed above in Poke Yoke

http://www.campbell.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/spclecture.ppt

same prof’s home page

http://www.campbell.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/grout.html

Another good source (look for Quality Tools tab, then Control Charts)

http://www.sytsma.com/

Reaction injection molding

www.rimnetics.com/ sitemap.htm