Design for Mechanical Assembly and Constraint Based Design

Learn about the best practices in designing mechanical systems for assembly and design with optimal constraints

What you'll learn
Learn about the basic concepts of Designing for assembly
Importance of smooth assembly in design process
How to design for better insertion, alignment and reduction of parts
Design features for mistake proofing
Constraint based design approach
What are redundant constraints?
What is Exact, minimum and Over constraint

Requirements
Basic understanding of mechanical design

Description
Designing a mechanical systems involves many considerations . From Functional requirements, Aesthetics, Durability to Manufacturing and Assembly with assembly being a key aspect in terms of performance and cost. Designing a system with assembly in mind requires an approach which focusses on the ease and speed of assembly . In a production setup where Time is money , efficient assemblies are very important .Learning about how to plan and design systems so that they can be easily manufactured and assembled is one of the key tasks for a design engineers. This course introduces the key concepts to be considered when designing for assembly.You will Learn :- The context of assemblies in larger product development - product architecture- What is modularity in assembly- Importance of assembly ease - Costs associated- Generic rules of Thumb and affect of Tolerances- Part count reduction- Handling , Insertion , Self aligning features- Poka yoke features- Case studies in Designing for assemblyUtilizing degrees of freedom or strategically constraining them is a design philosophy used to design precise and optimally constrained systems.- What are redundant constraints in systems, structures- When are they useful and when they are not?- What is exact kinematic constraint assembly?- Nesting force and constraining a plate in 2D- Case studies and examples of the concept applied in practiceLearn about key fundamentals to keep in mind when designing for mechanical assembly and practices to inculcate , errors to avoid in practice.Learn a new way of thinking about mechanical systems in terms of constraints and how to effectively utilize them for function and assembly.In this 2 in 1 course covering key insightful concepts which can be put directly into practice by design engineers.

Who this course is for:
Practicing design engineers who want to incorporate Design for Assembly practices to better design systems