iFAB Smart Manufacturing Adapting Rapidly to Product Variants (SMARTV)

Abstract

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA564700

Entities

People

  • Brandon Widmer
  • David Bourne
  • Kazu Saitou
  • Prasanta Bose
  • Salil Gupta

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Air Force
  • Assembly
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Fabrication
  • Information Systems
  • Manufacturing
  • Production
  • Reliability
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Metallurgy
  • Software Engineering