Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 338-354Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09511920600883229
Keywords
casting; rapid prototyping; process selection; quality deployment function; analytic network process
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An integrated methodology using quality function deployment (QFD) and analytic network process (ANP) is proposed to determine and prioritize the engineering requirements of a cast part, based on the customer needs, for selecting and evaluating an appropriate rapid prototyping (RP)-based route for tooling fabrication. The QFD incorporates a planning matrix to translate the customer needs into measurable engineering requirements using a robust evaluation method based on ANP. Experimental data generated by carrying out benchmarking studies of widely used RP processes were used to facilitate assignment of relative weights in ANP. The methodology is demonstrated and validated with an industrial example of a separator body casting. It has proved to be a robust evaluation and decision-making tool for selecting appropriate tooling route for a given casting based on customer requirements.
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