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Nowadays tolerance optimization is increasingly becoming an important tool for manufacturing and mechanical design. This seemingly, arbitrary task of assigning dimension tolerance can have a large effect on the cost and performance of manufactured products. With the increase in competition in today’s market place, small savings in cost or small increase in performance may determine the success of a product. In practical applications, tolerances are most often assigned as informal compromises between functional quality and manufacturing cost. Frequently the compromise is obtained interactively by trial and error. A more scientific approach is often desirable for better performance. In this paper particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used for the optimal machining tolerance allocation of over running clutch assembly to obtain the global optimal solution. The objective is to obtain optimum tolerances of the individual components for the minimum cost of manufacturing. The result obtained by PSO is compared with the geometric programming (GP) and genetic algorithm (GA) and the performance of the result are analyzed .
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Noorul Haq, A., Karthikeyan, K., Sivakumar, K. et al. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for optimal machining allocation of clutch assembly. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 27, 865–869 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-004-2274-5
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