Data‐driven variation source identification for manufacturing process using the eigenspace comparison method

Variation reduction of manufacturing processes is an essential objective of process quality improvement. It is highly desirable to develop a methodology of variation source identification that helps quickly identify the variation sources, hence leading to quality improvement and cost reduction in manufacturing systems. This paper presents a variation source identification method based on the analysis of the covariance matrix of process quality measurements. The identification procedure utilizes the fact that the eigenspace of the quality measurement covariance matrix can be decomposed into a subspace due to variation sources and a subspace purely due to system noise. The former subspaces for different samples will be the same if the same variation sources dominate. A testing procedure is presented, which can determine the closeness of the subspaces under sampling uncertainty. A case study is conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of this methodology. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006.     

A new reformulation approach for the generalized partial covering problem

In this paper, we consider a situation in which a group of facilities must be constructed in order to serve a given set of customers, where the facilities might not be able to guarantee an absolute coverage to the different customers. We examine the problem of maximizing the total service reliability of the system subject to a budgetary constraint. We propose a new reformulation of this problem that facilitates the generation of tight lower and upper bounds. These bounding mechanisms are embedded within the framework of a branch‐and‐bound procedure. Computational results on problem instances ranging in size up to 100 facilities and 200 customers reveal the efficacy of the proposed exact and heuristic approaches. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

The Banzhaf value and communication situations

Myerson 3 and 4 proposed and characterized a modification of the Shapley value in the context of communication situations. In this paper we propose several characterizations of the extension of the Banzhaf value proposed by Owen 7 to communication situations. In particular we characterize this value with the properties of fairness, isolation, and pairwise merging. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

Minimizing the makespan in open‐shop scheduling problems with a convex resource consumption function

We consider open‐shop scheduling problems where operation‐processing times are a convex decreasing function of a common limited nonrenewable resource. The scheduler's objective is to determine the optimal job sequence on each machine and the optimal resource allocation for each operation in order to minimize the makespan. We prove that this problem is NP‐hard, but for the special case of the two‐machine problem we provide an efficient optimization algorithm. We also provide a fully polynomial approximation scheme for solving the preemptive case. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

Vertically restrictive pricing in supply chains with price‐dependent demand

We examine the behavior of a manufacturer and a retailer in a decentralized supply chain under price‐dependent, stochastic demand. We model a retail fixed markup (RFM) policy, which can arise as a form of vertically restrictive pricing in a supply chain, and we examine its effect on supply chain performance. We prove the existence of the optimal pricing and replenishment policies when demand has a linear additive form and the distribution of the uncertainty component has a nondecreasing failure rate. We numerically compare the relative performance of RFM to a price‐only contract and we find that RFM results in greater profit for the supply chain than the price‐only contract in a variety of scenarios. We find that RFM can lead to Pareto‐improving solutions where both the supplier and the retailer earn more profit than under a price‐only contract. Finally, we compare RFM to a buyback contract and explore the implications of allowing the fixed markup parameter to be endogenous to the model. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006.     

On‐line parameter estimation for a partially observable system subject to random failure

In this paper, we study the on‐line parameter estimation problem for a partially observable system subject to deterioration and random failure. The state of the system evolves according to a continuous time homogeneous Markov process with a finite state space. The system state is not observable, except for the failure state. The information related to the system state is available at discrete times through inspections. A recursive maximum likelihood (RML) algorithm is proposed for the on‐line parameter estimation of the model. The RML algorithm proposed in the paper is considerably faster and easier to apply than other RML algorithms in the literature, because it does not require projection into the constraint domain and calculation of the gradient on the surface of the constraint manifolds. The algorithm is illustrated by an example using real vibration data. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

强侧风作用下棚车气动外形优化

铁路通用车型中,强侧风作用下棚车的气动性能最差。利用二维定常不可压缩N-S方程、k-ε两方程紊流模型,采用有限体积法对强侧风作用下棚车气动外形进行了优化研究。结果表明,棚车车顶形状对强侧风作用下棚车气动性能有较大影响,圆弧型车顶的P65型棚车气动性优于“人”字型车顶P64型棚车;棚车侧壁和车顶圆弧采用圆弧过渡比直接连接的效果好,综合考虑棚车气动性能和有效容量两方面因素,建议车顶圆弧和过渡圆弧半径分别取2692mm和500mm。     

基于组合设计的软件可靠性测试方法

提出了将实验设计中的组合设计方法应用于软件可靠性测试。分析了组合设计方法在软件可靠性测试用例设计中应用的理论基础和基于组合设计的软件可靠性测试的一般方法。同时指出了利用软件操作剖面信息和失效数据进行可靠性评估的方法。     

基于AHP的装备研制项目风险分析方法

把AHP(Analytic H ierarchy Process)方法运用于装备研制项目风险分析,实现了风险因素的排序、系统总风险的评价以及风险响应措施的选择。在风险发生概率和风险损失的基础上,将风险因素的可控制性和用户满意度风险也同时作为风险判断准则,使得风险的评价更合理、更准确地反映项目实际。最后给出了风险因素排序及风险响应措施选择的应用实例。     

回归分析在漏磁定量检测中的应用

通过分析漏磁场,选取法向分量的峰峰值和峰峰值间距作为漏磁通信号的特征量。重点介绍了多元回归分析模型理论、参数估计方法和回归模型的假设检验,得到缺陷宽度、深度与峰峰值和峰峰值间距之间的回归模型,最后利用漏磁数据对回归模型进行了检验,结果表明预测缺陷宽度和深度的误差不超过10%,利用回归分析能够实现漏磁检测的定量化。