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• Name(s): Frank Liou
• Contact Information:

  Frank Liou
  Associate Professor
  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  and Engineering Mechanics
  University of Missouri-Rolla
  Rolla, MO 65401
  
  TEL: (314)341-4603
  FAX: (314)341-4607
  E-MAIL: liou@umr.edu
  

• Information related to Virtual Manufacturing

  UM-ROLLA RESEARCHERS CREATING "VIRTUAL"
  SYSTEM TO IMPROVE NEW PRODUCT DESIGN
  
                                          December 20, 1994
                                          Contact:  Andrew Careaga
                                          Phone:  314-341-4328
  
  The virtual factory -- where products and the systems used to manufacture
  them can be designed and tested on a computer -- is not as far-fetched as
  it sounds, according to two University of Missouri-Rolla researchers
  creating software to improve the early stages of new product development.
  The most costly stage of making new products involves making and testing a
  physical model of a design concept, says Dr. Frank Liou, a UMR associate
  professor of mechanical engineering. Liou and Dr. Bruce McMillin, a UMR
  associate professor of computer science, are working with Software Systems
  Specialists Inc. of St. Louis to develop software to create a virtual
  environment for testing these designs. The process would save time and
  materials while creating computer-simulated conditions that are "very close
  to the real world" of a production line.  With this process we can save
  time during the design stage, and we can eliminate a lot of poor designs at
  the early stages.
  
  
  >
  >- a list of relevant references;
  
          "Virtual System Lets You Test Product Design," Advanced
  Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 15, 1995, pp.1-2.
  
          Yong Fang and F.W. Liou,"Computer Simulation of Three-Dimensional
  Mechanical Assemblies, Part I. General Formulation," Proceedings of the
  1993 ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, Vol 1, pp.579-587.
  
         T.C. Chou and F.W. Liou,"Computer Simulation of Three-Dimensional
  Mechanical Assemblies, Part II. Computer Simulation," Proceedings of the
  1993 ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, Vol 1, pp.589-596.
  
          Yong Fang and F.W. Liou,"Feature-Based Dynamic Analysis of
  Mechanisms," Proceedings of the 1993 Applied Mechanisms & Robotics
  Conference, IXB 1-1 to 1-7, 1993.
  
          F.W. Liou and T.C. Chou,"An Advanced Motion Simulation System for
  Mechanical Assemblies," Proceedings of the 1994 NSF Design and
  Manufacturing Grantees Conference, pp177-178, 1994.
  
          Yong Fang and F. W. Liou,"Geometric Modeling and Simulation of
  Mechanical Assemblies with Elastic Components," Proceedings of the Design
  Technical Conferences, DE-Vol. 69-1, pp. 45-53, September 11-14, 1994.
  
          Yong Fang and F. W. Liou,"An Interactive Design Tool for
  Part-Orienting Systems," Proceedings of the 1995 NSF Design and
  Manufacturing Grantees Conference, pp99-100, 1995.
  
          Yong Fang and F. W. Liou, "Dynamic Analysis of Three Dimensional
  Multi-body systems with Elastic components,"Computers and Structures, to
  appear.
  
          Yong Fang and F. W. Liou,"Interactive Geometric Modeling and
  Simulation of Manufacturing Systems," Integrated Product, Process, and
  Enterprise Design, Chapman & Hall, edited by Ben Wang, to appear.
  
  
  >
  >- if possible, a URL for a world-wide-web or anonymous ftp site where
  >  interested parties can retrieve more detailed information about your
  >  work.
  >
  
  Here is my world-wide-web address.  However, we are still in the process of
  putting info. into this account.  We expect to have at least text info. by
  the end of April.
  
  http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/personal/liou/liou.htm
  

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