Reducing the Quantity of Reworked Parts in a Robotic Arc Welding Process

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 495-512

  Aksoy, Burcu ^a   Orbak, Âli Yurdun ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Case study; Quality; Robotic arc welding; Six sigma methodology; Statistical tools

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; QUALITY; ROBOTIC ARC WELDING; SIX SIGMA METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL TOOLS;

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPETITION; ELECTRIC ARC WELDING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; WELDING;

WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

EID: 66149118124     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.985     Document Type: Article

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