Robust design for fixture layout in multistation assembly systems using sequential space filling methods

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Wenzhen ^a   Kong, Zhenyu ^b   Chennamaraju, Abishek ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; AUTOMOTIVE BODY; COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; DESIGN SPACES; DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONS; FIXTURE LAYOUT; FLOOR PAN; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; HIGH DIMENSIONS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MULTI-STATION ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; MULTI-STATION MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; NONCONVEX; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMAL DESIGN PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PROCESS VARIABLES; ROBUST DESIGNS; SEARCH SPACES; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SEQUENTIAL SPACES; SYSTEM LEVELS;

ALGORITHMS; ASSEMBLY; FIXTURES (TOOLING); GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MANUFACTURE; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

DESIGN;

EID: 78650542305     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3503880     Document Type: Article

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