Quantitative selection of variation reduction plans

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Thornton, Anna C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Key characteristics; Manufacturing process cost; Process capability; Process improvement; Variation reduction

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

COMPLEX PRODUCTION; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MANUFACTURING VARIATION; MULTIPLE QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; VARIATION REDUCTIONS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 85101172087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC98/DTM-5664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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