Resumen de Collaborative product development experience in a senior integrated and manufacturing course
C. Vila, José Vicente Abellán Nebot, A.M. Estruch, H.R. Siller
In the new scenario of global competitiveness, companies are forced to outsource and distribute product manufacturing in order tominimize costs and delivery times. Hence, engineering education must encourage students to work according to this trend by takingadvantage of recent developments in Product Lifecycle Management systems (PLM). We have reviewed past educational efforts toeducate future engineers with these skills, and the CAX techniques applied in education to achieve them. We also present a new PLMexperience conducted in a senior Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) course for graduate students, where a collaborativeproduct development project was carried out. Through the project experience, the students acquired abilities related to design andmanufacturing in a collaborative environment, using CAD/CAE/CAM and PLM software tools. The project let the students learn bypracticing through activities such as 3D design, drawings, plastic injection analysis, cutting-tool and fixture selection, cutting parameterselection and CNC simulation. At the end of the project, the new designs were prototyped and the best model machined in a CNCmachining center. We have established positive and negative aspects of the PLM experience and students' impressions.
