...Yicong Gao; Chuan He; Bing Zheng; Hao Zheng; Jianrong Tan Purpose Complexity is the main challenge for present and future manufacturers. Assembly complexity heavily affects a product’s final quality in the fully automated assembly system. This paper aims to propose a new method to assess...

...Mingzhou Liu; Conghu Liu; Qinghua Zhu Purpose – The purpose of this study was to research how the reassembly (remanufacturing assembly) achieves a quality that is not lower than original production with different precision remanufactured parts based on the integration of mechanics, mathematics...

...Richard Bloss Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the CIRP Conference on Technologies and Systems for Assembly Quality, Productivity and Customization, held at the University of Michigan. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides an in‐depth review of a number of the technical...

...Gordon Lowe; Richard Bloss Purpose This paper sets out to present how manufacturing system controllers can be an important part of a total system of real‐time manufacturing metrics data gathering and analysis as well as part of the quality control, product tracking and history documentation...

... of leading academics and practitioners who are familiar with the six sigma topic as well as general quality management/improvement fields. Findings The findings of this panel discussion was quite stimulating and the author believes that this will be extremely useful to both researchers and practitioners...

... Cost drivers Outsourcing Design Quality The drive for new and diverse ways of reducing production and assembly costs and improving manufacturing efficiency has seen major improvements in automation flexibility, and the widespread take up of lean manufacturing. Yet, for many companies...

... © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Semiconductors Quality New protection for semiconductor quality Keywords: Semiconductors, Quality Software Industries of Montpellier, France, has designed its Software Industries Fault Tracking, or SIFT system, to aid semiconductor...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Lasers Beams Quality Laser marker has exceptional beam quality ... thanks to laser diodes Keywords: Lasers, Beams, Quality VectorMark® compact from Haas Laser, a subsidiary of Trumpf, has been designed for the efficient marking of all...

... Keywords: Quality, Vision, Quality control In operation, drag or torque is produced in the brake by rotating a hysteresis shaft assembly through a strong magnetic field produced by a multi-pole permanent magnet. The force field can be increased or decreased simply by moving one...