Licensable Technologies : Engineering : Manufacturing & Fabrication

System Level Analysis and Control of Manufacturing Process Variation

Abstract
A method for optimizing the performance of an overall manufacturing system through analysis of variation within each subsystem.

Application(s)
Manufacturing system design including: 

• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Consumer Products
• Electronics
• Semiconductors
• Analysis of quality control data

Advantages
The algorithm developed the following advantages over other approaches to reducing noise in manufacturing systems:

• Optimizes overall system, not individual sub-systems
• Robust over wide range of real-world conditions
• Works well in mathematically non-linear systems
• Handles multiple response variables
• No restrictions on relationships among sub-processes

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Reference Number: 181

S Number: DOE reference no.(s): 96,591

Patents & Applications:
United States National Patent Number 6901308 Issued on 05/31/2005

Posted: 09-29-2004

Contact
Laura Barber
Technology Transfer Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663, MailStop C334
(505) 667-9266
ljbb@lanl.gov