Process-Oriented Tolerance Synthesis for Multistage Manufacturing Systems

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Ding ◽  
Jionghua Jin ◽  
Dariusz Ceglarek ◽  
Jianjun Shi

Abstract In multistage manufacturing systems, quality of final products is strongly affected not only by product design characteristics but also by key process design characteristics. However, historically, tolerance research has primarily focused on allocating tolerances based on product design characteristics for each component. Currently, there is no analytical approach for multistage manufacturing processes to optimally allocate tolerances to integrate product and process characteristics at minimum cost. One of the major obstacles is that the relationship between tolerances of process and product characteristics is not well understood and modeled. Under this motivation, this paper aims at presenting a framework addressing the process-oriented (rather than product-oriented) tolerancing technique for multistage manufacturing processes. Based on a developed state space model, tolerances of process design characteristics at each fabrication stage are related to the quality of final product. All key elements in the framework are described and then derived for a multistage assembly process. An industrial case study is used to illustrate the proposed approach.

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 675-699
Author(s):  
Abadi Chaimae ◽  
Abadi Asmae ◽  
Manssouri Imad

Nowadays, industries face very strong challenges because of the high competitiveness between them. In fact, they are required to offer products with high quality and minimum cost in the minimum time. Since most of the characteristics and costs of the product and its manufacturing process are fixed in the design phase, this paper is focused on this strategic phase. Indeed, a new integrated product design approach is presented. It considers at the same time design requirements, materials characteristics, manufacturing parameters and the assembly process specifications. The developed approach is quantitative. Actually, the decision making is based on all its steps on objective and subjective indicators. To validate the integrated approach, a case study on the Schrader Robot is developed. This application allows to choose the most appropriate materials, manufacturing processes and assembly solution of its different components.


Author(s):  
Jelena Milisavljevic ◽  
Sesh Commuri ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree

Multistage manufacturing processes (MMPs) are networked manufacturing systems consisting of multiple operational stations that have characteristics of mechanical and control systems. Common challenges in the design of MMPs are the selection of sensors and tools as this not only affects the dimensional quality of the finished product, but also influences the computational complexity in representing and analyzing the problem. Imprecise or incomplete information results in uncertainty in the models used to represent the MMP and limit the use of traditional design approaches. In this paper, an exploration method for the concurrent design (CDEM) of MMPs under uncertainty is presented wherein the attributes of tools and sensors are treated as design variables, thereby allowing flexibility in a design process. The proposed method is illustrated using an example of automotive panel stamping process. Our focus in this paper is on the method rather than the results per se.


2005 ◽  
Vol 6-8 ◽  
pp. 295-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Bley ◽  
C. Zenner ◽  
M. Bossmann

As the quality of manufactured products as well as the quality of the used manufacturing processes has become more and more important for a company in order to stay competitive in the last decades, an integrated quality management leading towards intelligent manufacturing represents a key factor today. Therefore, new methods are required for considering quality information in all phases of the product life cycle. Feature technology and especially the use of so-called measurement and quality features represent an approach towards integrated quality management and the achievement of process-oriented and global quality control loops. Furthermore, feature technology in general also represents a high potential just within the area of sheet metal forming where it can be used to provide additional information for designing manufacturing processes and constructing tools and devices in manufacturing systems.


Author(s):  
G. Hong ◽  
P. R. Dean ◽  
W. Yang ◽  
Y. L. Tu ◽  
D. Xue

One-of-a-kind production (OKP) is a new manufacturing paradigm to produce customized products based on requirements of individual customers while maintaining the quality and efficiency of mass production. In this research, an integrated optimal product design and process planning approach is developed to satisfy customer requirements considering design and manufacturing constraints. In this work, a hybrid AND-OR graph is introduced to model the variations of design configurations/parameters and manufacturing processes/parameters in generic product family. Since different design configurations and parameters can be created from the same customer requirements, and each design can be further achieved through alternative manufacturing processes and parameters, co-evolutionary genetic programming and numerical optimization are employed to identify the optimal product design configuration/parameters and manufacturing process/parameters. An industrial case study to identify the optimal design configuration/parameters and manufacturing process/parameters of custom window products in a local company is introduced to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Servátka ◽  
Stanislav Fabian

The paper presents a sample of wider set of new findings and recommendations from the area of the influence of technological parameters on the quality of surface of steel HARDOX 500 cut by AWJ technology and obtained by the evaluation of a large set of experiments within long-term activities of the Department of Manufacturing Processes Operation, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies, Technical University in Košice, aimed at the diagnostics of operational states of manufacturing systems with AWJ technology.


Author(s):  
Hubert Vasseur ◽  
Thomas R. Kurfess ◽  
Jonathan Cagan

Abstract We consider the design issues of characterizing and appropriately choosing the quality of a product for maximum customer satisfaction and maximum corporate profit. We assume that the basic design configuration of a product is determined and that the designer must select the product quality by imposing statistical tolerances (manufacturing accuracy specifications) and choosing appropriate manufacturing processes. We claim that these design considerations, although often neglected, impact the behavior, cost, and even marketability of the product. A design concept without these specifications is incomplete because i) its feasibility is questionable ii) its cost of production is undetermined iii) its performance is unknown. The design process is seen here as an exploratory activity constrained by the manufacturing systems available. In particular, we provide a decision-analytic methodology to reason about the quality of product and the influences on profit resulting in a specification of manufacturing process and machine accuracy to match customer requests. The method is illustrated by the study of a simple three component assembly.


Author(s):  
Pei Y. Tsai ◽  
Junedong Lee ◽  
Paul Ronsheim ◽  
Lindsay Burns ◽  
Richard Murphy ◽  
...  

Abstract A stringent sampling plan is developed to monitor and improve the quality of 300mm SOI (silicon on insulator) starting wafers procured from the suppliers. The ultimate goal is to obtain the defect free wafers for device fabrication and increase yield and circuit performance of the semiconductor integrated circuits. This paper presents various characterization techniques for QC monitor and examples of the typical defects attributed to wafer manufacturing processes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Serrano Ruiz

This document presents a case study of acoustic analysis in an open-plan office. Since Mexico does not have a standard for evaluating acoustic conditions in offices, it is relevant to compare different acoustic evaluation methods used for open-plan offices. According to several studies, one of the main acoustic characteristics for open-plan office spaces is speech intelligibility. Therefore, the purpose of this document is to compare psychoacoustic parameters to evaluate speech intelligibility in open-plan offices. We analyzed physical factors as reverberation and speech clarity in different office points, as well as semantic factors based on subjective methods with standardized values of the quality of speech intelligibility. The study was carried out under real open-plan office conditions in a library in a university in northern Mexico. The study factors of interest were type of sound, sound source, and location of the listener, with Reverberation Time (RT), Speech Transmission Index (STI) and Loss of consonant articulation (%ALCons) as the measures of impact on intelligibility. This case study provides additional evidence of the relationship between intelligibility and the position of sound sources; also, it was noted that location of listeners influenced analyzed intelligibility parameters. On the other hand, this case study offers information concerning to use psychoacoustic parameters for subjective classification of quality of the speech intelligibility to evaluate how is background noise perceived in open-plan office users. However, it is noteworthy that this study represents a single office with its own interior and space design characteristics.


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