costly. This paper investigated the manufacture of double crowned gears by traditional gear shaving machine. Taguchi Method was applied to find critical parameters in the shaving process and the transmission error had also been improved through the process of robust design.

Taguchi experimental design method is widely used in engineering field. Experiments are carried out order to obtain the optimum values of product designed or produced field engineering. It difficult make experiments because large number parameters studies made. Therefore, with method, less experimentation can be done shorter time and an accurate test strategy being developed. Thus, saving provi...

Flow shop scheduling problem has a wide application in the manufacturing and has attracted much attention in academic fields. From other point, on time delivery of products and services is a major necessity of companies’ todays; early and tardy delivery times will result additional cost such as holding or penalty costs.  In this paper, just-in-time (JIT) flow shop scheduling problem with preemp...

A Taguchi robust design method with an L₉ orthogonal array was implemented to optimize experimental conditions for the biosynthesis of triethanolamine (TEA)-based esterquat cationic surfactants using an enzymatic reaction method. The esterification reaction conversion% was considered as the response. Enzyme amount, reaction time, reaction temperature and molar ratio of substrates, [oleic acid: ...

– Deburring is the finishing technique that is very essential for the manufacturing of precise components. Deburring process with greater efficiency and full automation is an extremely difficult task. Thermal deburring offers a potential solution to such problems. For successful utilization of thermal deburring, more intensive research including parameters analysis of the process is still requi...

Joux’s multicollision attack is one of the most striking results on hash functions and also one of the simplest: it computes a k-collision on iterated hashes in time ⌈log2 k⌉ · 2 , whereas k! · 2 was thought to be optimal. Kelsey and Schneier improved this to 3 · 2 if storage 2 is available and if the compression functions admits easily found fixed-points. This paper presents a simple technique...

Tolerance plays a major role in the manufacturing industry, as it affects product design, manufacturing, and quality of the product. This paper considers product design, manufacturing, and quality simultaneously, and introduces a concurrent approach for tolerance allocation using evolutionary algorithms. A non-linear model that minimizes the combination of manufacturing cost and quality loss si...

Optimum energy consumption and prevention of energy losses are important issues in various fields including agricultural engineering. Mower is one of the agricultural machineries that can waste too much energy if does not function properly. In this study, the performance of a single disc rotary mower was studied and optimized by measurement of cutting quality of the stem cross section (cutting ...

cost optimization of the reinforced concrete cantilever soil retaining wall of a given height satisfying some structural and geotechnical design constraints is performed utilizing harmony search and improved harmony search algorithms. the objective function considered is the cost of the structure, and design is based on aci 318-05. this function is minimized subjected to design constraints. a n...

Control charts are powerful tools to monitor quality characteristics of services or production processes. However, in some processes, the performance of process or product cannot be controlled by monitoring a characteristic; instead, they require to be controlled by a function that usually refers as a profile. This study suggests employing exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) and range ...