Design verification and validation in product lifecycle

PG Maropoulos, D Ceglarek - CIRP annals, 2010 - Elsevier
The verification and validation of engineering designs are of primary importance as they
directly influence production performance and ultimately define product functionality and …

Flexible fixture design and automation: Review, issues and future directions

ZM Bi, WJ Zhang - International Journal of Production Research, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The cost of designing and fabricating fixtures can amount to 10-20% of the total
manufacturing system costs. To reduce manufacturing costs, a fixture system is designed to …

Maintenance: changing role in life cycle management

S Takata, F Kirnura, FJAM van Houten, E Westkamper… - CIRP annals, 2004 - Elsevier
As attention to environmental problems grows, product life cycle management is becoming a
crucial issue in realizing a sustainable society. Our objective is to provide the functions …

State space modeling of sheet metal assembly for dimensional control

J **, J Shi - 1999 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, a state space modeling approach is developed for the dimensional control of
sheet metal assembly processes. In this study, a 3-2-1 scheme is assumed for the sheet …

Quality control and improvement for multistage systems: A survey

J Shi, S Zhou - IIE transactions, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
A multistage system refers to a system consisting of multiple components, stations or stages
required to finish the final product or service. Multistage systems are very common in …

SPECIES—Co-evolution of products, processes and production systems

T Tolio, D Ceglarek, HA ElMaraghy, A Fischer, SJ Hu… - CIRP annals, 2010 - Elsevier
Manufacturing enterprises are changing the way they behave in the market to face the
increasing complexity of the economic, socio-political and technological dynamics …

[LIVRE][B] Stream of variation modeling and analysis for multistage manufacturing processes

J Shi - 2006 - taylorfrancis.com
Variability arises in multistage manufacturing processes (MMPs) from a variety of sources.
Variation reduction demands data fusion from product/process design, manufacturing …

Stream-of-variation theory for automotive body assembly

SJ Hu, Y Koren - CIRP Annals, 1997 - Elsevier
Manufacturing systems usually consist of processes and machines in a multi-leveled
hierarchy. As a result, dimensional variation in the final product is accumulated as the …

Fault diagnosis of multistage manufacturing processes by using state space approach

Y Ding, D Ceglarek, J Shi - J. Manuf. Sci. Eng., 2002 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a methodology for diagnostics of fixture failures in multistage
manufacturing processes (MMP). The diagnostic methodology is based on the state-space …

In-process quality improvement: Concepts, methodologies, and applications

J Shi - IISE transactions, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents the concepts, methodologies, and applications of In-Process Quality
Improvement (IPQI) in complex manufacturing systems. As opposed to traditional quality …