Dimensional quality is a measure of conformance of the actual geometry of products with the designed geometry. In the automotive body assembly process, maintaining good dimensional quality is very difficult and critical to the product. In this paper, a dimensional quality analysis and diagnostic tool is developed based on principal component analysis (PCA). In quality analysis, the quality loss due to dimensional variation can be partitioned into a mean deviation and piece-to-piece variation. By using PCA, the piece-to-piece variation can be further decomposed into a set of independent geometrical variation modes. The features of these major variation modes help in identifying the underlying causes of dimensional variation in order to reduce the variation. The variation mode chart developed in this paper provides the explicit and exact geometrical interpretation of variation modes, making PCA easily understood. A case study using an automotive body assembly dimensional quality analysis will illustrate the value and power of this methodology in solving actual engineering problems in a practical manner.


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    Title :

    Improving automotive dimensional quality by using principal component analysis


    Additional title:

    Verbesserung der Maßqualität von Automobilen mit Hilfe der Hauptkomponenten-Analyse


    Contributors:
    Kai Yang (author)


    Publication date :

    1996


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 12 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 9 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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