Product and process tolerance allocation in multistation compliant assembly using analytical target cascading

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 0917011-0917019

  Li, Zhijun ^a   Kokkolaras, Michael ^a   Papalambros, Panos ^a   Hu, S Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical target cascading; Hierarchical multi level optimization; Multi station compliant assembly; Product and process tolerance allocation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; BUDGET CONTROL; DESIGN; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FIXTURES (TOOLING); OPTIMIZATION;

ANALYTICAL TARGET CASCADING; COMPLIANT ASSEMBLY; HIERARCHICAL MULTI-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-STATION COMPLIANT ASSEMBLY; MULTI-STATIONS; MULTILEVEL OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS TOLERANCE; PRODUCT AND PROCESS TOLERANCE ALLOCATION; QUALITY TARGETS; TOLERANCE ALLOCATION;

COSTS;

EID: 77955178629     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2943296     Document Type: Article

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