Design for manufacture in the aerospace extended enterprise
Kamal Sehdev
(Research Officer at the CIM
Institute. As well as his involvement in the EPSRC‐funded Design for
Manufacture in the Extended Enterprise Project, he lectures to the
Master′s course on the application of AI and expert systems in business,
on data communications and on computer‐aided design and manufacture. He
can be contacted at the CIM Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield,
Bedford, MK43 0AL UK. Tel: 01234 754073; Fax: 01234 750852.)
Ip‐Shing Fan
(Lecturer and the Research Manager at the CIM Institute. He is the Principal Investigator of this Project. He also works in various European Commission funded research projects in design for manufacture and concurrent engineering.)
Stephen Cooper
(Research Assistant at the CIM Institute at Cranfield University and is working towards a PhD. He is the full‐time Research Associate on the Design for Manufacture in the Extended Enterprise Project. He is involved with many aspects of the project but is particularly involved in the area of design for manufacture/assembly tools and techniques.)
Gareth Williams
(Manufacturing engineering research group at the BAe Cranfield Manufacturing Centre. He is a Research Associate on the Design for Manufacture in the Extended Enterprise project, contributing aerospace manufacturing and business process expertise.)
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Abstract
Design for manufacture (DFM) is accepted as an important tool to improve manufacturing competitiveness. Reports on the results of the first phase of a study conducted by Cranfield University to establish the user requirements for “design for manufacture” within a complex design and manufacture supply chain.
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Citation
Sehdev, K., Fan, I., Cooper, S. and Williams, G. (1995), "Design for manufacture in the aerospace extended enterprise", World Class Design to Manufacture, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369310081936
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