Design for Assembly Methods for Large and Heavy Plates: An experimental Design

In spite of advances in industrial automation, manual assembly tasks continue to be an important feature of many industrial operations. In heavy part assembly, some pieces of raw material or equipment are too heavy to be safely handled by an operator. Material handling devices such as Jib cranes or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wongwanich, Yodyot
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34370
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08062001-125706/