Date of Completion
Spring 5-1-2024
Thesis Advisor(s)
Amy Thompson
Honors Major
Electrical Engineering
Abstract
The simulation of the manufacturing of different components of a scavenge water pump led to the creation of different manufacturing process models. These included, but are not limited to, milling machine processes, drilling processes, and turning processes. The design process included finding certain parameter values and equations in the DFMA software, creating a model in Matlab, testing, and incorporating other desired elements such as the type of materials. This final report provides a comprehensive explanation of the different parts of the water pump and the necessary manufacturing processes, the creation and details of the models, and the testing process. For testing, results of the code were compared with DFMA, and once the workings of the code were validated, adjustments to values were made to provide further information. Future work can build on the models by either creating more for other processes or fine tuning them for a complete water pump simulation from start to finish.
Recommended Citation
Jin, Andre, "Use of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) in Simulating Components of a Water Pump" (2024). Honors Scholar Theses. 1016.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/1016