Selective assembly in manufacturing: Statistical issues and optimal binning strategies

Technometrics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-175

  Mease, David ^a   Nair, Vijayan N ^b   Sudjianto, Agus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Bank of America Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Match gaging; Optimal partitioning; Tolerance design; Variation reduction

Indexed keywords

MATCH GAGING; OPTIMAL PARTITIONING; TOLERANCE DESIGN; VARIATION REDUCTION;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ERROR CORRECTION; FITS AND TOLERANCES; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHAFTS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 2442484799     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017004000000185     Document Type: Article

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