A systematic optimization approach for assembly sequence planning using Taguchi method, DOE, and BPNN

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 716-726

  Chen, Wen Chin ^a   Hsu, Yung Yuan ^a   Hsieh, Ling Feng ^a   Tai, Pei Hao ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assembly precedence diagrams; Assembly sequence planning; Design of experiment; Neural networks; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY CONSTRAINTS; ASSEMBLY PLANNING; ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE; ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING; BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTING EFFICIENCY; GRAPH-BASED; KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENGINEERING; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; REAL-WORLD; SYSTEMATIC OPTIMIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; TAGUCHI METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349467760     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.098     Document Type: Article

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