A multi-plant tolerance allocation model for products manufactured in a multi-plant collaborative manufacturing environment

To produce an assembled product, the components need to be manufactured within the allocated tolerances such that the assembly operations can be performed to produce the final product. In a collaborative manufacturing environment, the components of a product may be manufactured at different plants distributed at various locations. There are different manufacturing operations with various process capabilities at the multiple plants. If the components are distributed to the manufacturing operations at the different plants, the working tolerances of the components may be allocated differently. In this research, a multi-plant tolerance allocation model is presented. At the first stage, given the blueprint dimensions and tolerances of a designed product, a cross-plant tolerance allocation is performed to determine the working tolerance of each of the components by considering all the feasible manufacturing operations of the available plants. The primary objective at the first stage is to maximize the cumulativ...

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