Assembly design of hybrid rapid parts

Currently, product development times are increasingly short but at the same time, the developed products have more and more special customization. Moreover, at each step of product evolution, prototypes are often entirely re-manufactured for testing, which increases time and cost. To reduce this time to market for new industrial products, we have developed a new methodology based on a multi-component prototype (hybrid rapid prototype) approach. The part is decomposed into multi component prototype (MCP) instead of a part which made in one part, thus the manufacturing process is optimized and enables a larger reactivity during the development of the product. In this paper, we present our method, which proposes, starting from features, a functional model for representation, analysed according to four different points of view: The feasibility analysis. The geometry analysis. The manufacturing analysis. The assembly analysis. In this paper, we develop more particularly this last part. We propose a methodology of assembly for hybrid rapid part. This method on the basis of data CAD Step AP-224 must enable us to obtain an exhaustive list of solutions of gatherable module. This work is illustrated with an industrial example.