Huibin Sun

• Professor (Associate) at Northwestern Polytechnical University

In order to use Workflow to achieve process control of engineering changes implementation in complex product assembly field, this paper puts forward a configuration control process modeling approach based on Petri Nets. In this approach, a configuration correlation model is introduced firstly, in which the configuration data structure and its insid...

It is widely acknowledged that machining precision and surface integrity are greatly affected by cutting tool conditions. In order to enable early cutting tool replacement and proactive actions, tool wear conditions should be estimated in advance and updated in real-time. In this work, an approach to in-process tool condition forecasting is propose...

Cutting chatter is extremely harmful to the machining process, and it is of great significance to eliminate chatter through analyzing the stability of the machining process. In this work, the stability of the milling process with multiple delays is investigated. Considering the regeneration effect, the dynamics of the milling process with variable...

Remaining useful life prediction is essential for cutting tool utilization evaluation and replacement decision-making. However, it is very difficult to build a mechanism model for the time-varying and non-linear cutting tool wear and life decreasing process. Based on big samples, artificial intelligence–based models have weak interpretability and u...

On the basis of linear multistep method, the stability of milling process is investigated in this paper. The dynamics of milling process considering the regeneration effect is modeled as a delay differential equation (DDE) with periodic coefficient. The Floquet theory is adopted to predict the stability of milling by calculating the spectral radius...

The saw-tooth chip formation is one of the main machining characteristics in cutting of titanium alloys. The numerical simulation of saw-tooth chip formation, however, is still not accurate, since most of these numerical simulation models are based on traditional finite element method, which have difficulties in handling extremely large deformation...

Accurate remaining useful life prediction is meaningful for cutting tool usability evaluation. Over the years, experience-based models, data-driven models, and physics-based models have been used individually to predict cutting tool remaining useful lives. In order to improve prediction performances, different prognostics models can be combined to...

Chatter is a frequently encountered problem in metal cutting field which reduces the machining efficiency and surface quality. Therefore, a reliable and robust chatter detection method is necessary to improve the machining performances. In this work, a novel milling chatter detection approach based on singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is proposed. S...

In industry, many taper shafts are designed with tolerances of a few microns. To cut them in finish turning, paths of the tool in virtual machining should be accurately generated beforehand. For this purpose, the dimension errors and surface roughness of the virtually cut workpiece should be predicted. Unfortunately, the current tool path generatio...

Modeling the cutting process is traditionally based on the finite element method (FEM). All element-based numerical methods, however, have difficulties in handling with extremely large deformation and material fragmentation that always occur in cutting processes. In contrast, mesh-free methods such as smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) have a lo...

Nowadays, traditional cutting tool providers are prolonging their business chains by integrating intangible cutting services with physical cutting tools as a cutting tool iPSS. However, the cutting tool service quality and profit depend on the accuracy of tool condition monitoring (TCM). Then, a TCM-iPSS model is proposed to enable successful cutti...

Purpose The functionality and reliability of an overhauled aero-engine is determined by all configuration changes in the overhaul process. Identifying, recording, auditing, tracking and tracing of configuration modifications are significant and meaningful. Considering the barriers to these goals, this paper aims to put forward an approach to confi...

Currently, worn blade repair work, obtaining the target surfaces manually wastes too much time. To improve repair ability, an innovative adaptive repair strategy is proposed which covers pre-inspection, welding, and machining process. Different from finding repairing surface manually, the welded surface and machining surface are restructured with l...

Surface textures formed in the machining process have a great influence on parts’ mechanical behaviours. Normally, the surface textures are inspected by using the images of the machined and cleaned parts. In this paper, an in-process surface texture condition monitoring approach is proposed. Based on the grey-level co-occurrence matrices, some surf...

In this paper, a method for evaluating the remaining useful life of an individual cutting tool while the tool is in process is proposed. The method is based on the operational reliability of a cutting tool which is used to assess its ability to complete a machining operation. Sensitive features extracted from force, vibration and acoustic emission...

A flexible new technique is presented to calibrate the monocular system of phase-based fringe projection profilometry, which is made of a camera, a projector, and a computer. The proposed algorithm mainly consists of a more flexible phase-to-height conversion model and a minimum norm solution, followed by a nonlinear optimization based on the maxim...

A more efficient camera calibration and optimisation method based on orthogonal vanishing points is proposed. After extracting corner points on the calibration images by using the Harris algorithm, some parallel lines are fitted via the least square method. The Levenberg–Marquard (L–M) algorithm is used to find out the optimum vanishing points. The...

In fringe projection profilometry, a simplified method is proposed to recover absolute phase maps of two-frequency fringe patterns by using a unique mapping rule. The mapping rule is designed from the rounded phase values to the fringe order of each pixel. Absolute phase can be recovered by the fringe order maps. Unlike the existing techniques, whe...

A novel approach is presented for more effectively removing invalid phase values in absolute phase recovery. The approach is based on a detailed study involving the types and cases of invalid phase values. Meanwhile, some commonalities of the existing removal algorithms also are thoroughly analyzed. It is well known that rough absolute phase and fr...

Machining chatter is the self-excited vibration between the cutting tool and work piece that can deteriorate surface quality and increase cost. A reliable machining chatter forecast method is needed to recognize chatter symptom, while the chatter is developing. In this paper, an online machining chatter forecast framework is proposed. The improved...

It is well known that the presence of cutter run-out has a significant effect upon the instantaneous uncut chip thickness through redistributing it and thereby contributes to the irregular change on the cutting forces in one tooth periods. In this paper, in order to avoid the numerical oscillations from differential model and to eliminate the influ...

After presenting the basic theory and algorithm of Hilbert-Huang transformation (HHT), a tool signal was decomposed with the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method and its intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) were gained to obtain their average amplitude. The IMF components related to tool wear were chosen using a difference screen. Meanwhile, the ma...

In order to evaluate and optimise the product service relationships synthetically, a microscopic and macroscopic perspectives fused method is proposed. The microscopic level deals with the quality and cost of the part machining service networks, and aims to analyse them quantitatively. Assisted by computing intelligence, some candidates are chosen...

To solve the digitalized management problem of aero-engine configuration in whole lifecycle, the reason of poor circulation, low integrity and low reuse efficiency of information resource was analyzed. With the combination of Assembly and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (AMRO), an entire framework of aero-engine AMRO supporting system was proposed...

It was difficult to analyze and evaluate product service system due to its high order, multi-loop, nonlinear and uncertain characteristics. Aiming at this problem, concepts as service, product service network and product service chain were defined, the product service system was described from different perspectives. According to complex network th...

Service-based manufacturing realize service's resource integration and process collaboration through service between enterprises. Due to complex service types and many influence factors, the service evaluation, the service integration and the service scheme optimization were became research difficulties. Therefore, according to service-based manufa...

To support product service systems (PSSs) design, a multiple layer collaborative design infrastructure is proposed to enable the transfer of the design thinking from creating products to creating services. The concept of design for service (DFS) is put forward. And design for maintenance service (DFMS), design for repair service (DFRS), design for...

In order to analyse product–service performance (PSP) during product–service systems' (PSSs) running time, a PSP evaluation method is proposed. Interrelationship between a PSS's provider and accepter is defined as product–service relationship (PSR). Concepts of product–service network and product–service chain are put forward to describe interrelat...

The nature of service-oriented manufacturing network is modular service network for capacity need based. The difference in service capability increases the manufacturing networks’ uncertainty, making the choice of supplier more complex. A strategy for supplier selection applying FWNN (fuzzy wavelet neural network) was presented in this paper. The f...

To find out the best part machining service provider combination, the theory of multiple objective optimization is discussed in detail via mathematic formulation. Relationships among service provider candidates, service types and parameters are analyzed and uncovered by matrix accumulation. The evaluation index and the practical strength are define...

In order to solve the digitalized management problem of aero-engine in the whole lifecycle, a framework of aero-engine AMRO supporting system is put forward. Management of assembly, maintenance, repair and overhaul are involved. Modeling and integration of aero-engine status data, assembly process management, on-spot operation guide, online educati...

In order to improving the designing efficiency and achieving automation of airfoil optimization designing, A method which combined the airfoil parametric modeling software, the CFD software with Isight platform was presented, it was used to optimize the airfoil to ameliorate its aerodynamic performance. During the process of optimization designing,...

To describe interrelationship among enterprises in offering the product services, concept of product service relationship is proposed. The product service architecture is put forward to explain how product services act in the product structure and lifecycle. And product service network is adopted to model the product service relationship. The probl...

To solve the asynchronization problem between the logistics flow and the information flow in the assembly execution process, assembly Agents were proposed to encapsulate assembly tasks and data, and Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags were adopted to identify materials. Through verifying materials by RFID tags, assembly Agents were triggered...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to solve the asynchrony problem between the logistics stream and the information stream in the complex product assembly executive process. Design/methodology/approach States of assembly and logistics are described by transitions, and implemented via logistics agents and assembly agents. Events in the assembly e...

In order to optimize part machining service combination, an approach is proposed from the perspective of improving assembly fit quality. Difference between part tolerance and error is regarded as evaluation index. Simulated annealing is adopted to look for the best solution with little time consumption. An example shows that, the method benefits qu...

To increase the agility in manufacturing, we propose a method of tracking the online workpiece machining procedure in a mobile collaborative environment. Here, how to enable both machining quality tracking and machining information tracking are two key problems that need to be solved in this research. The first problem deals with information handli...

To enable drawing viewing in the mobile manufacturing collaboration environment, an SVG-based solution is proposed. It converts the CAD files into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files for PCs, PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants) and smart phones. Assisted by corresponding SVG viewer, different terminals can view the same file at the same time. On the...

To solve manufacturing information sharing and tracking problems, three key issues are discussed. Firstly, templates are used to host manufacturing information, though they differ in their content and capacity. Secondly, the manufacturing information sharing and controlling method (MISCM) locates every information item at a discrete point on the ma...

Currently, networked manufacturing is regarded as a new manufacturing mode. Extended enterprise is a type of new organizational mode of enterprises for networked manufacturing, which has become the key point for enterprises winning competitions in global markets. Nowadays, many researches and major contributions have been found on networked manufac...

To describe and analyze the complexity of mobile manufacturing collaboration, a collaboration network is defined via clarifying relationship between users and collaborative functions. The roles of nodes in the network and their relationships are revealed by evaluating the related parameters such as node strength, clustering coefficients. Coupling r...

To describe and analyze mobile collaboration space , an etwork model is suggested, where the terminals are regarded as the nodes and the relationships between them as the edges . Considering the complex weighted networks characters , the amount of same functions between two nodes is defined as the weight ,and the behaviors and relationships between...

To meet the requirements of progress tracking, cost tracking and quality tracking in product-driven e-manufacturing process, a time-dependent instantiated template (TIT) net-based manufacturing information tracking method is proposed. Adopting manufacturing information templates to encapsulate manufacturing information, relationships between produc...

In order to meet the needs of network manufacturing, a methodology to construct a project-based collaborative working environment is put forward and the synchronously correspondent collaborative web-tool based on the cross-platform Java solution is developed. The functions of this tool include collaborative privilege management, Java JMF-driven col...