On rapid prototyping of assembly systems - a modular approach Online publication date: Wed, 28-Mar-2018
by Zhiqin Qian; Tan Zhang; Mengya Cai; Wenjun Lin; Wenjun Zhang
International Journal of Materials and Product Technology (IJMPT), Vol. 56, No. 3, 2018
Abstract: This paper proposes a new product and manufacturing technology for rapid prototyping of product systems (RPPSs). It is noted that a system in this paper is defined as a physical assembly that can be decomposed into components. The rapid prototyping is achieved by a novel modular concept, that is, the base materials to build a component as well as an assembly is highly modularised (the interface between any two modules are identical) and building a system is simply by assembling the modules. The rapid prototyping in this paper differs significantly from the rapid prototyping in literature in that the latter builds a system layer by layer and further primarily builds a component instead of assembly (building of an assembly is actually very limited with the latter, though possible). This paper explains the RPPS approach and presents a feasibility study on the RPPS technology. It has been shown that the RPPS technology is promising.
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