For the manufacturer that intends to reduce the processing costs without sacrificing product quality, the identification of the optimal process mean is a problem frequently revisited. The traditional method to solving this problem involves making assumptions on the process parameter values and...

For any given manufacturing system, the initial setting of the process target is critical in preventing excessive product rejection and rework costs. Often referred to as the 'process target problem', the traditional approach relies first on the assumption of certain values for the process mean...

When the manufacturing objective is process or product improvement, quality practitioners will frequently resort to one or more approaches within the broader class of response surface methodology. Several techniques, such as the dual response, robust parameter design, and desirability function...

Most of previous research on tolerance optimization seeks the optimal tolerance allocation with process parameters such as fixed process mean and variance. This research, however, differs from the previous studies in two ways. First, an integrated optimization scheme is proposed to determine...