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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Automotive body"”.
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Distributed gauging methodologies for variation reduction in the automotive body shop
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1995.
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The cost modeling of automotive body-in-white assembly using relational databases
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1997.
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Utilizing automated inspection to identify surface quality defects within the automotive body assembly process
… defects on completed vehicles and then deem the Body Assembly Shop, an upstream process, as responsible for creating the defect. However, inspectors in the Body Assembly Shop have already evaluated the vehicle and guaranteed it to be defect free. This indicates that inspectors in the Body …
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An analysis of automotive body assembly technologies and their implications in lightweight vehicle development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1997.
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A technical and economic analysis of structural composite use in automotive body-in-white applications
Alternative materials technologies promise increased design flexibility, improved damage resistance and lighter weight (among others) over the steel designs that are currently in production. To understand why such features are desirable and why a composite intensive vehicle may become an attractive …
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A technical and economic analysis of structural composite use in automotive body-in-white applications
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy Program, 1998.
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Economic aspects of materials substitution in horizontal automotive body panels : the issue of SMC surface finish
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 1991
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An investigation of the challenges and costs associated with a high volume all aluminum automotive body shop
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1994.
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The significance of production cost inputs in regional technology choice : composite automotive body-in-whites in the US versus China
… and engineers. This work models the cost of automotive body in-white production in the United States versus the People's Republic of China. Three body-in-white materials are evaluated for each country: carbon-reinforced composites, glass-reinforced composites, and steel. Based on the results, …
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A methodology for determining engineering costs and their effects on the development of product families
… is outlined. A process-based cost model of the automotive product development process is presented. This model uses product part and subassembly characteristics to estimate the engineering effort required at various stages of the development process. Product development cycle time is also …
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Leveraging Analytics for Improved Supply Chain Operations
… mill that produces both common alloy (CA) and automotive body sheet (ABS) aluminum products. The organization has struggled with managing high ingot inventory levels that have led to high holding costs and order delinquency. This work demonstrates how applications of simple flow improvements, …
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Development of CFRP Class A body panels and structural components for automotive applications
… repeatable and reproducible data to support automotive structural applications. The compressive strength was determined through ASTM D 695 M testing, and the results were correlated with test variations implemented. Various preparation methods were evaluated in the determination of the cause …
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Strategic evaluation of environmental metrics : making use of life cycle inventories
… in which XLCA is used to compare designs for automotive body structures. The cases demonstrate how XLCA can rank designs from a discrete set or determine that designs are indistinguishable. The key to the value of this approach is that the robustness of rankings can be systematically tested. A …