Assembly root cause analysis: A way to reduce dimensional variation in assembled products

International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-150

  Carlson, Johan S ^a   Söderberg, Rikard ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER CHALMERS CENTRE   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Design for diagnosis; Diagnosability; Fault isolation; Hierarchical assembly; Multivariate statistical analysis; Root cause analysis

Indexed keywords

FIXTURES (TOOLING); INSPECTION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0038379649     PISSN: 09206299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024453207632     Document Type: Review

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