Advanced Methodology and Software for Tolerancing and Stochastic Optimization
Abstract
The work presented here is a culmination of several years’effort on developing an advanced, coherent, and user-friendly capability for enabling Design Synthesis be conducted naturally in the Stochastic Realm. Developed are: (i)A complete suite of user-friendly software for Variability Analysis that covers all possible situations and that obviate need for probabilistic expertise, (ii) a methodology to enable comprehensively addressing effects of variability, and (Hi) a suite of software for Stochastic (Design) Optimization along with a simplified clarification of Optimization. Completed in ’94 & ’96 respectively, (i) & (Hi) have been successfully applied yielding significant revelations. The whole provides a unified concept and breakthrough capability for Tolerancing and Design Optimization. An alternative title could have been “Robust Design and Tolerances: Extended, Rigorized, Demystified, yet Simplified. ”
Keywords
Tolerancing Optimization Probability Robustness LatitudePreview
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