...Souma Chowdhury; Achille Messac; Ritesh A Khire Development of a family of products that satisfies different market niches introduces significant challenges to today’s manufacturing industries—from development time to aftermarket services. A product family with a common platform paradigm offers...

...Jian S. Dai; Xilun Ding The platform based vibratory bowl feeders are essential elements in automatic assembly. Taking the bowl feeder as a typical three-legged rigidly connected compliant platform device, this paper applies von Mises’ compliance matrix to each of the leaf-spring legs, establishes...

... to relate these screw systems to motion and constraints of a parallel mechanism to identify the platform constraints, mechanism constraints and redundant constraints. The screw system characteristics and relationships are investigated for physical properties and a new approach to mobility analysis...