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We are offering a PhD position in the field of manufacturing and automation systems. You will become a member of Manufacturing Processes and Systems (MaPS) division of the Mechanical Engineering Department at KU Leuven. KU Leuven is the most innovative University in Europe. MaPS is active in academic research in the field. MaPS also has a very strong focus on application-driven research and development in close collaboration with industry. The knowledge gained from steady research over the years has resulted in multiple spin-off companies.
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ProjectDesigning tolerances can be a time-intensive and heuristic process in mechanical designs. Often these tolerances are simply copied from previous designs or obtained from rather heuristic tolerance synthesis methods. Typically these methods do not account for the actual behavior of an assembly nor do they take into account the production cost. In other cases, designers even lack the freedom to alter the tolerances, and need to stick to company standards. This is problematic as these tolerances can have a major impact on the performance of the system while they are also strongly affecting the cost of manufacturing and of quality control. The proposed thesis will focus on the development of a workflow to optimize tolerances (to optimize manufacturing cost) while fulfilling the functionality of the assembled product. The software tool chain developed in the project is expected to extend the capabilities of the existing CAD/CAM/CAE systems by novel tolerance and design optimization tools.
ProfileYou share strong interest in design and manufacturing, and you have:
We offer a full-time PhD research position in Mechanical Engineering:
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Interested?For more information please contact Prof. Dr. ir. Dominiek Reynaerts, tel.: +32 16 32 26 40, mail: [email protected] or Dr. Shashwat Kushwaha, tel.: +32 16 32 64 50, mail: [email protected].
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