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 …

Products made of compliant sheet metals are widely used in automotive, aerospace,
appliance and electronics industries. One of the most important challenges for the assembly …

Dramatic advancements and adoption of computing capabilities, communication
technologies, and advanced, pervasive sensing have impacted every aspect of modern …

Dimensional variation is one of the most critical issues in the design of assembled products.
This is especially true for the assembly of compliant parts since clam** and joining during …

Although uniaxial tensile testing is commonly used to evaluate failure properties of vascular
tissue, there is no established protocol for specimen shape or grip** method. Large …

Frequency of model change and the vast amounts of time and cost required to make a
changeover, also called time-based competition, has become a characteristic feature of …

This paper presents a new fixture design methodology for sheet metal assembly processes.
The proposed approach focuses on the impact of fixture position on the dimensional quality …

Variation propagation in a multi-station manufacturing process (MMP) is described by the
theory of “Stream of Variation.” Given that the measurements are obtained via certain sensor …

Automatic in-process data collection techniques have been widely used in complicated
manufacturing processes in recent years. The huge amounts of product measurement data …

This paper presents a methodology for optimal allocation of sensors in a multistation
assembly process for the purpose of diagnosing in a timely manner variation sources that …