Study of an assembly tolerance allocation model based on Monte Carlo simulation

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 70, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 9-16

  Lin, Chih Young ^a   Huang, Wei Hsin ^a   Jeng, Ming Chang ^a   Doong, Ji Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assembly tolerance allocation; Model; Monte Carlo method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ASSEMBLY TOLERANCE ALLOCATION MODEL;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031258154     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(97)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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