Tolerance Specification Optimization for Economic and Ecological Sustainability
Book chapter, 2013

In the final stages of product development, dimensional tolerances are specified by designers to ensure high functionality at low costs. A traditional approach to this decision-making process is to minimize economic losses to the manufacturer and the consumer. This paper presents a new approach for tolerance allocation optimization that considers sustainability not only from economic costs but also ecological costs. The framework is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem and explored with a case study on the design of an automotive body panel. Results of the case study include Pareto frontiers of non-dominated optimal solutions along with a parametric study to explore the influence of material choice on the results.

variation propagation

tolerance allocation

sustainability

multi-objective optimization

cost minimization

Author

Steven Hoffenson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Andreas Dagman

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Rikard Söderberg

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

21940525 (ISSN) 21940533 (eISSN)

Vol. Part F1158 865-874

Subject Categories

Mechanical Engineering

Other Mechanical Engineering

Ecology

Economics

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-30817-8_85

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