A Digital Interface for the Part Designers and the Fixture Designers for a Reconfigurable Assembly System

Table 1

Brief sketch of knowledge share components between part designer and fixture designer.

Part design activities	Fixture design activities
	Material cost estimation	Fixture cost estimation	Process planning	Fixture design optimization	Fixture model design
Requirements of each market segment
Commonality/differentiation decision
Material selection	X	X
Concept generation	X
Individual parts configuration		X		X	X
Tooling elements and clamps characterization	X	X		X	X
Dimension specification		X	X		X
Generation of part/parts for assembly					X