A robust product design can be characterized in many ways, but perhaps the most direct definition is the design that maximizes the profitability for the company while consistently meeting all of the expectations of the customer. For the mechanical specifications of the design “robust” typically means using the least expensive manufacturing processes available, processes that are most often asso...

* Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics † Department of Computer Engineering and Science ‡ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ABSTRACT This paper describes advances in developing key software, sensing/control, and parts-handling technologies enabling robust operation of an agile manufacturing workcell. In particular, we discuss: a modular software architecture...

One of the main objectives in engineering-whether design or manufacturing-is to minimize variations in quality characteristics of a system. The system can either be a product or a process. Minimizing variation requires defining a quantitative measure of variation; in other words a performance measure. Several performance measures have been defined and continue to be utilized primarily to design...

Digital image analysis of high-density spot array images is a crucial part of high-throughput gene expression and transcript frequency profiling experiments in array technology. With increasing density of the spot arrays and large numbers of images a fully automated approach becomes mandatory in order to be capable of analyzing the masses of data. Fully automated means that no user interaction ...

Palladium is an element of PGM group that has significant physical properties. This leads to more attention to this metal. Due to vast applications of palladium in industry and its usage in jewelry, its price plays an important role in economic. Therefore, forecasting its price is crucial subject in economic and engineering design. This paper proposes the model GM(1,1) to predict the Palladium ...

Robust parameter design has been successfully applied to a variety of engineering problems for enhancing the robustness of the system; however, it cannot deal with multiple dynamic quality systems. Although several other approaches have been presented to resolve this problem, they are unable to efficiently treat the situations that the control factors have continuous values. This study incorpor...