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• Name(s): Bob Young
• Contact Information:

  Dr Bob Young
  Department of Manufacturing Engineering
  Loughborough University of Technology
  Loughborough, Leicestershire
  LE11 3TU
  R.I.Young@lut.ac.uk
  tel: 01509 222920
  fax: 01509 267725
  

• Information related to Virtual Manufacturing

  
  The following is a description of our current research.
  
  
  Our research is focused on Manufacturing Modelling. This has at the centre
  of its philosophy the need to provide designers and manufacturing engineers
  with high quality manufacturing information on which to base their
  decisions. It is therefore  central to the needs of Concurrent Engineering
  and Virtual Manufacturing Systems.
  
  The modelling of the data, function and behaviour of manufacturing
  resources, processes and strategies is a key issue. Being able to model all
  these three related dimensions in the Manufacturing Model allows a suitable
  description of a manufacturing facility in terms of its structure,
  organisation, and capabilities. In this way the Manufacturing Model becomes
  a useful source of manufacturing information which supports different
  applications in design and manufacturing. Currently our modelling work is
  concentrating on two processes, machining and injection moulding. 
  
  This research makes a contribution to Manufacturing Characterization,
  Modelling Technologies, Representation and Meta-Modelling. We are in the
  process of building a WWW page. The URL will be:
  
  http://info.lut.ac.uk/departments/en/research.dir/ise.dir/CADCAM.html
  
  
  References:
  
  
  Molina A, Ellis T I A, Young R I M, Bell R. "Modelling Manufacturing
  Capability to Support Concurrent Engineering" Concurrent Engineering:
  Research and Applications (CERA) Journal. Vol3 no1 March 1995 pp29-42.
  
  Molina A M, Al-Ashaab A H, Ellis T I A, Young R I M, Bell R. "A Review of
  Computer Aided Simultaneous Engineering Systems" Research in Engineering
  Design. (1995) 7 pp38-63.
  
  Al-Ashaab A H, Young R I M "Design for Injection Moulding in a Manufacturing
  Model Environment" Accepted by the Journal of Design and Manufacturing, July
  1994.
  
  Ellis T I A, Molina A, Young R I M, Bell R "The development of an
  Information Sharing Platform for Concurrent Engineering" European Workshop
  on Integrated manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE'94), Grenoble, France
  Dec. 1994.
  
  
  Lee R J V, Young R I M "Design for Manufacture: An approach to software
  support in a concurrent engineering environment" Factory 2000, 4th Int Conf
  on Advanced Facory Automation, Oct. 1994, pp593-600
  
  
  Molina A, Ellis T I A, Young R I M, Bell R "An Integrated Framework for the
  development of computer aided engineering systems" IEEE/ECLA/IFIP
  International Conference on Architectures and design methods for balanced
  automated systems, 24-26 July 1995, Vitoria, ES, Brazil
  
  
  Molina A, Ellis T I A, Young R I M, Bell R. "Modelling Manufacturing
  Resources, Processes and Strategies to Support Concurrent Engineering"
  Proceedings of CE94, Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and
  Applications. August 29-31st 1994, Pittsburgh,PA,USA, pp51-60
  
  Al-Ashaab A, Young R I M "A Manufacturing Model: Supporting Concurrency in
  Injection Moulded Products Design" ASME/ESDA conference, 4th-7th July 1994
  London. pp33-43
  
  Ellis T.I.A., Young R.I.M and Bell R. "Modelling Manufacturing Process
  Information to Support Simultaneous Engineering" Proceedings of ICED93, 9th
  International Conference on Engineering Design, Aug17-19th, 1993, the Hague,
  Netherlands. pp1081-1084.
  
  
  Ellis T.I.A., Young R.I.M and Bell R. "A Design for Manufacture Software
  Environment to Support Simultaneous Engineering" Proceedings of the 9th
  National Conference on Manufacturing Research, Sept 7-9th, 1993, Bath, UK,
  pp301-305.
  
  Al-Ashaab A., Young R.I.M  "Information Models: an aid to concurrency in
  Injection Molded Products Design" Presented at the Winter Annual Meeting of
  the ASME, Anaheim, November 1992.
  
  Young R.I.M.  "The Role of Product and Manufacturing Models in Concurrent
  Engineering". Proceedings of SERC-IMechE Expert Meeting, Sept 8-10, 1992, St
  Albans, U.K.
  
  
  Young R I M, "Manufacturing Models" Seminar on Information systems for
  competetive manufacture, Department of Manufacturing Engineering,
  Loughborough University of Technology, Sept 1994, pp13-20 
  
  

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