Assembly time estimation: Assembly mate based structural complexity metric predictive modeling

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Owensby, Joseph E ^a   Summers, Joshua D ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial neural networks; assembly time; complexity; design for assembly; DFA

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; ASSEMBLY TIME; COMPLEXITY; CONNECTIVITY GRAPH; DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY; DFA; PREDICTIVE MODELING; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; NEURAL NETWORKS; TOOLS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84893057818     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4025808     Document Type: Article

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