Tolerance design through variance transmission equations

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 413-438

  Feng, Qianmei ^a,c   Kapur, Kailash C ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c IIE ^*

^d American Society for Quality   (India)

^e Institute of Industrial Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic optimization; Experimental design; Quality improvement; Tolerance design; Variance transmission equation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TOLERANCE DESIGN; VARIANCE TRANSMISSION EQUATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PASSIVE FILTERS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 27144512279     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539305001926     Document Type: Article

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