Abstract
Tolerance is one of the most important parameters in design and manufacturing. Tolerance synthesis has a significant impact on manufacturing cost and product quality. In the international standards community two approaches for statistical tolerancing of mechanical parts are being discussed: process capability indices and distribution function zone. The distribution function zone (DFZone) approach defines the acceptability of a population of parts by requiring that the distribution function of relevant values of the parts be bounded by a pair of specified distribution functions. In order to apply this approach to statistical tolerancing, one needs a method to decompose the assembly level tolerance specification to obtain tolerance parameters for each component in conjunction with a corresponding tolerance-cost model. This paper introduces an optimization-based statistical tolerance synthesis model based on the DFZone tolerance specifications. A new tolerance-cost model is proposed and the model is illustrated with an assembly example.
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