Background Introduction Evaluatiom Of Product Assembability Using Lucas Hull Method.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background Introduction

Manufacturing industry is one of the fields that play an important role in gaining a profit for country. It is also important in evolution of technology for human kind. Manufacturing is being studied hundred of years ago. Many achievements have been done regarding manufacturing field. In manufacturing, there were many processes that involved. One of the process was assembling. Assembly was an old process that does manually by human at ancient time. Time by time, assembly process evolved so more efficient and reducing time of production. Nowadays, assembly is done manually by human and automatically by robot. Assembling part is one of important process in manufacturing. Final assembly is the moment of truth Charles H. Fine, MIT Whitney, 2004. Although this process is infamous but it is process that human always do. Assembling part play a major role in manufacturing field. Assembly is to bring or come together or to fit or put together. In manufacturing, assemble means putting two or more parts together to make one product. The product must be functioning to use by human. Assembling parts also involved efficiency and time. The part that easily to assembled can reduce time and may lead to make mass production. This easily assemble also can reduce assemble cost. 1 A method that known as Design for Assembly DFA was proposed to help designers considered assembly problem. Design for assembly is a process by which products are designed with ease of assembly in mind. Most products are assembled manually and the DFA method for manual assembly is the most widely used. Each product has their own assembleability than to determine weather the product good in assembly or not. The development of DFA has lead to development of Design for Manufacture DFM. DFM is design that considered for manufacture. The DFA and DFM have strong relationship that gives benefit to manufacturing field. The manufacturing field has faced many challenges and the survival in this field is by used effectives tools and infrastructure. The uses of DFA and DFA have been made widely and these tools have lead to increasing in new design development.

1.2 Problem Statement