Information Model for the Integration of Manufacturing Restrictions into the Algorithm Based Product Development Process.

Following the algorithm based product development process, integral bifurcated sheet metal profiles are optimized. However mathematical optimized profiles do not contain information about manufacturing restrictions or additional information. Therefore many iterations between product development and manufacturing are necessary until the production of the profile. The following contribution introduces manufacturing restriction models and their integration as non-geometric information into mathematical optimized profiles to reduce the time costing iterations for adapting a profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]