Artificial intelligence in CAM modeling of assembly operations of tank wagons

Abstract

Virtual product design represents a technological key for reduction of costs arising from the errors generated in the processes of engineering design during lifetime. It is important to establish a connection between CAD design of products and complex limitations of assembly operations in CAM so that the design process is provided with the conditions for development and modification in a virtual environment before the beginning of production. Procedures include shape and feature recognition using a model-based CAD (computer-aided design) analyser, data structure and data modeling, knowledge-based representation, and inference processing through a set of heuristics and rules. The main tool here is an object-oriented concept as a means for managing geometrical data, topological data and abstraction. The advantage of this linking in design processes is in overcoming creation of expensive physical production systems so that all variant research could be carried out on a virtual model. This integration can be seen on the example of tank waggons.