Title: Analysis of product quality with consideration of influence of manufacturing errors in discrete-part machining systems

Authors: Shichang Du, Jun Lv, Lifeng Xi, Ershun Pan

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China. ' School of International Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economic, Shanghai, China. ' Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China. ' Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Abstract: Control of product quality is one of the deciding factors in current manufacturing competitions, and has always presented a great challenge to both academia and engineers since for a discrete-part machining system, the final product variation is an accumulation from all stations, and there is a complex non-linear relationship between dimensional quality and machining errors. This paper explores a procedure for expressing the influence of a numbers of errors on dimensional variations. The procedure provides one virtual design tool provided CAD AND CAPP data are available. A real-world example is used to illustrate the new methodology.

Keywords: manufacturing errors; virtual design; discrete-part machining; product quality; quality control; dimensional variations; CAD; CAPP; computer aided design; computer aided process planning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.021880

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2008 Vol.33 No.1, pp.3 - 11

Published online: 08 Dec 2008 *

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