Joint Asymmetric Tolerance Design and Manufacturing Decision-Making for Additive Manufacturing Processes

Concurrent Tolerance Design with Alternative Manufacturing Processes

Traditional practice to tolerance design has been based on a sequential approach to design and manufacturing considerations. An integrated approach involving simultaneous selection of design and manufacturing tolerances was introduced in the last decade. Choice of manufacturing processes (or machines) from amongst the alternatives, frequently encountered in different stages of realization of in...

Stochastic Decision Making in Manufacturing Environments

Decision making plays an important role in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, statistics and many other fields. In each field, decision making consists of identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues that define the decision. In any field, the nature of the decisions is affected by environmental characteristics. In this paper, we are considered the production planning pro...

Design for manufacturing: application of collaborative multidisciplinary decision making methodology

Design for manufacturing is often difficult for mechanical parts since significant manufacturing knowledge is required to adjust part designs for manufacturability. The traditional trial and error approach usually leads to expensive iterations and compromises the quality of the final design. The authors believe the appropriate way to handle product design for manufacturing problems is not to fo...

Manufacturing Investment and Allocation in Product Line Design Decision-making

An important aspect of product development is design for manufacturability (DFM) analysis that aims to incorporate manufacturing requirements into early product decisionmaking. Existing methods in DFM seldom quantify explicitly the tradeoffs between revenues and costs generated by making design choices that may be desirable in the market but costly to manufacture. This paper builds upon previou...

Optimal design for tolerance and manufacturing allocation