Assembly quality methodology: An application of the defect prediction to audio equipment assembled at various manufacturing sites

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 333-339

  Shibata, Hirokazu ^a   Cheldelin, Brent ^b   Ishii, Kosuke ^b  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Assembly quality; Design for assembly; Manufacturing; Modular design; Quality; Quality control; Six sigma

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; AUDIO EQUIPMENT; DEFECTS;

ASSEMBLY QUALITY METHODOLOGY; MODULAR DESIGN;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; ASSEMBLY;

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; ASSEMBLY QUALITY; COMPLEXITY FACTORS; DEFECT PREDICTION; FLOATING THRESHOLDS; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; MANUFACTURING SITES; MODULAR UNITS;

EID: 0035791631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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