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A cost-tolerance analytical approach for design and manufacturing

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Tolerance assignment in mechanical engineering product design and manufacturing is critical both for product quality and performance as well as for its manufacturing cost. Simple design rules, industry available comparative experimental data, tables, charts, and personal expertise are currently used for cost optimum tolerancing. Such a methodology is not very practical, requires considerable time and effort and is not always suitable for a CAD/CAM environment. To face these limitations, a new model for the manufacturing cost-tolerance function has been developed and is presented in the paper. It may well be used for direct-tolerance optimisation applications and it is shown that it produces results that are in satisfactory agreement with existing cost-tolerance data. Its use is further analysed and demonstrated in solving linear manufacturing tolerance transfer problems.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, 42 Patission Street, GR 106 82, Greece

    M. M. Sfantsikopoulos

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Sfantsikopoulos, M.M. A cost-tolerance analytical approach for design and manufacturing. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 5, 126–134 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02601602

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