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Welcome to the homepage of the Laboratory
for Computer-Aided Design and Production
Our mission:
- Improve the sustainable development of products,
- Increase the productivity of manufacturing systems and
- Optimize the operation of product recovery systems.
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Our challenges for the future:
By the year 2015, the next generation manufacturing systems will
- be able to optimize manufacturing jobs according to multiple criteria such as rapidity, accuracy, efficiency and environmental impact,
- reduce the decoding effort in the CNC, reduce cycle time and thus increase productivity by an order of magnitude,
- be extremely environmentally friendly and clean, capable to operate in "clean environment", assuring closed loops for all waste.
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Our laboratory is addressing these challenges with advances made towards the development of 3 main research fields:
- Collaborative Conceptual Design Group Decision Making Methods
- Generic post-processors, independent of the tool geometry, part positioning, tool wear or machine
- Integrated framework for remanufacturing planning and scheduling to optimize the operational recovery of used products
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Our laboratory is pursuing its research along the following three research activity lines:
- Product Modelling and Optimization for Manufacture/Assembly/Remanufacture
- Advanced Manufacturing Information Systems
- Planning and Scheduling of Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Systems
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