Robust tolerance allocation using stochastic programming

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 333-350

  Li, Chang Chung ^a   Kao, Chiang ^b   Chen, Shih Pin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Manufacturing robustness; Monte carlo simulation; Process capability index; Sequential quadratic programming; Tolerance allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FITS AND TOLERANCES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PROCESS CAPABILITY INDEX; ROBUST TOLERANCE ALLOCATION; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031618449     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052159808941250     Document Type: Article

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