Abstract: Design of tolerances impacts quality, cost, and cycle time of a product. Most literature on deterministic tolerance design has focused on developing exact and heuristic algorithms to minimize ...

Abstract: The quality loss function incorporates the cost of tolerances, however, it does not consider the manufacturing cost and design constraints. In this paper, a stochastic integer programming (SIP) ...

Abstract: The reduction of setup time has a significant impact on shortening manufacturing cycle time. In this paper, characteristics of setup activities are investigated, and models for sequencing setup ...