Abstract: This paper introduces a technique for modeling manufacturing systems using block diagrams. The blocks represent linear transformations of dimensionless noise vectors to normalized quality characteristic ...

Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of a process capability matrix—an ordered set of dimensionless parameters that capture information on a manufacturing system’s response to disturbances. The matrix ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a technique that can be used in the early manufacturing process design stage to select from among the set of quality characteristics a smaller set that is adequate to ...