Journal article
Tooling choices and product performance
IIE transactions, Vol.32(1), pp.49-57
01/2000
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007603413987
Abstract
One of the dilemmas that manufacturers face involves the tradeoff between the cost of maintaining a variety of production processes, and the cost of not having the ideal process for every product that they produce. This issue is continuing to become more of a problem as manufacturers are forced by market conditions to offer a wider selection of products. We study an instance of this problem in the manufacture of sheet metal parts. We model the problem of selecting and/or designing tools to punch holes in these parts. The cost of not having an “ideal process” is the cost of not having a tool that precisely matches a hole's design diameter. We consider both general “process deviation” costs as well as the Taguchi loss function. Solution procedures are provided for several versions of the problem.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tooling choices and product performance
- Creators
- Dilip Chhajed - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignTimothy J. Lowe - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- IIE transactions, Vol.32(1), pp.49-57
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1007603413987
- ISSN
- 0740-817X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2000
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984963097602771
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