Modeling and Planning of Manufacturing Processes

Modern products impose high demands on products and on manufacturing processes. Lots of factors determine if these requirements can be met. The use of process modeling allows the accurate simulation of physical effects and product features. There are many excellent books dealing with the subject of manufacturing technologies. But only a few describe the methods of modeling manufacturing processes. The main objective of this book is to give graduate students, researchers and application-oriented engineers a survey about approved and current methods of modeling and planning in manufacturing processes. The book presents the fundamentals and the application of models for forming, cutting and grinding processes. By means of many illustrated examples the successfully integration of process modeling in early phases of process design is shown.