Geometric Tolerances : Impact on Product Design, Quality Inspection and Statistical Process Monitoring

Geometric tolerances are changing the way we design and manufacture industrial products. __Geometric Tolerances__ covers their impact on the world of design and production, highlighting new perspectives, possibilities, current issues and future challenges. The topics covered are designed to be relevant to readers from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from product designers and manufacturers to quality inspection engineers and quality engineers involved in statistical process monitoring. Areas included are: * selection of appropriate geometric tolerances and how they stack up in assembled products; * inspection of parts subjected to geometric tolerancing from the macro to the micro and sub-micro scales; and * enhancement of efficiency and efficacy of quality monitoring. __Geometric Tolerances__ provides the reader with the most recent scientific research in the field, as well as with a significant amount of real-life industrial case studies, delivering a multidisciplinary, synoptic view of one of the hottest and most strategic topics in industrial production. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Geometric Tolerance Specification....Pages 3-37 Geometric Tolerance Analysis....Pages 39-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Quality Inspection of Microtopographic Surface Features with Profilometers and Microscopes....Pages 71-110 Coordinate Measuring Machine Measurement Planning....Pages 111-158 Identification of Microtopographic Surface Features and Form Error Assessment....Pages 159-188 Geometric Tolerance Evaluation Using Combined Vision – Contact Techniques and Other Data Fusion Approaches....Pages 189-213 Statistical Shape Analysis of Manufacturing Data....Pages 215-234 Front Matter....Pages 235-235 Statistical Quality Monitoring of Geometric Tolerances: the Industrial Practice....Pages 237-255 Model-based Approaches for Quality Monitoring of Geometric Tolerances....Pages 257-283 A Model-free Approach for Quality Monitoring of Geometric Tolerances....Pages 285-310 Quality Monitoring of Geometric Tolerances: a Comparison Study....Pages 311-331 Back Matter....Pages 333-336