Diagnosis of multiple fixture faults in panel assembly

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 793-801

  Apley, D W ^a   Shi, J ^b  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

MULTIPLE FIXTURE FAULTS; PANEL ASSEMBLY;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EID: 0032205390     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: 15288935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2830222     Document Type: Article

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