Search-Powered Product Lifecycle Management - An Overview
Ravi Rangan, Product Sight Corporation

Fee: $60

Description: This tutorial introduces Search-powered PLM as a proven means to realizing product lifecycle information coverage, rapid deployments and targeted business benefits. Specifically, we review the business motivations, implementation challenges, modeling first principles and techniques, PLM business process patterns, industry case studies, and trends in PLM, including a PLM system demonstration.

Audience: Educators, researchers in the area of product informmation maangement, business process analysis and EIM, PLM system analysts, industry information/ process architects and implementation managers

Outline:

• Example online system demonstration
• PLM definition, market space and example business processes
• Introduction to Concurrent Product Specification
• Cross industry case studies
• EIM analysis techniques and implementation approaches
• Robustness principles, patterns and business methods
• Process driven, specification intensive system integration examples
• Industry standards
• Lessons learned and research directions

Design and Micro-Actuation of Structronic and Mechatronic Systems with Smart Materials
H.S. Tzou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, StrucTronics and Design Lab, University of Kentucky

Fee: $80

Description: The synergistic integration of smart materials, structures, machines, sensors, actuators, and control electronics can transform conventional structures and machines into active, adaptive, and "smart" structronic (structure + electronic) or mechatronic systems with inherent self-sensing, diagnosis, and control capabilities. This lecture covers smart materials (e.g., piezoelectrics, electro- and magneto-strictive materials, shape memory materials, electro- and magneto-rheological fluids, photostrictive materials, polyelectrolyte gels, pyroelectric materials, magneto-optical materials, superconductors, etc.), precision devices (sensors and actuators), smart structures, mechatronic and structronic systems, and opto-thermo-electro-magneto-mechanical systems encompassing elastic, temperature, electric, magnetic, light, and control interactions. Histories, fundamental characteristics, material varieties, precision micro- and nano-actuation and practical engineering applications are emphasized, no mathematical equations involved. Modern research issues are also discussed. Expected Benefits: Learn practical design applications.

Outline:

• Introduction
• Design with piezoelectric materials
• Design with electrostrictive materials
• Design with magnetostrictive materials
• Design with shape-memory materials
• Design with electrorheological and magnetorheological materials
• Design with other materials, e.g., pyroelectric, magnetooptical, photostrictive, polyelectrolyte, etc. materials
• Conclusion
• Design clinic

Computer-Aided Analysis of Tolerance Stacks
J. K. Davidson and J. J. Shah, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Fee: $40

Description: This tutorial is intended to introduce an array of methods for conducting tolerance-analysis (TA). Topics will range from traditional methods through the use of a new mathematical model for geometric tolerances and its use for TA. TA will be conducted selectively using both worst-case and statistical methods.

Audience: Designers in industry who work with tolerances; university researchers getting established in GD&T; engineers who create GD&T software for designers.

Outline:
The main topics:

• Quick review of Y14.5M, the ASME GD&T Standard
• Classification of tolerance analysis methods
• Min/max charts (1-D)
• parametric methods based on Monte Carlo simulation (3-D)
• Emerging methods: Multi-variate regions (e.g, T-maps)

Haptics for CAD
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A Study of the Duality Between Kinematics and Statics
Offer Shai, Department of Mechanics Materials and Systems, Tel Aviv University
Gordon R. Pennock, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Fee: FREE

Description: This workshop will discuss the correlation between basic concepts underlying the kinematics of mechanisms and the statics of trusses. The workshop will present practical examples to demonstrate how the duality between kinematics and statics provides a better understanding of mechanisms and trusses. The new concepts will be used to identify the singular configurations of linkages and the configurations of determinate trusses where they are not rigid. The workshop will show how to take advantage of important relationships between linkages and trusses to provide a general perspective of the duality between the kinematics of mechanisms and the statics of trusses.

Audience: Researchers, Scholars and students in Kinematics and Applied Mechanics.

Outline: The implication of the correlation between the concepts underlying the kinematics of mechanisms and the statics of trusses is that the science of kinematics can be utilized in a systematic manner to yield insight into the statics of mechanical systems.

The workshop will prove the existence of the equimomental line where the moments, at each point on this line, caused by two arbitrary co-planar forces are equal. Then two new theorems will be presented based on the duality between equimomental lines and the instantaneous center of zero velocity. The workshop will present examples to demonstrate how the duality between kinematics and statics provides a better understanding of mechanisms and trusses.