Theses and Dissertations

Pang Hui Wong

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Hudson, Susan T.

Committee Member

Newman, James C., III

Committee Member

Steele, W. Glenn

Committee Member

James, Carl A.

Date of Degree

8-2-2003

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Mechanical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

For any product development process, limited time and resources are always a focus for the engineer. However, will the overall program goals be achieved with the provided time and resources? Uncertainty analysis is a tool that is capable of providing the answer to that question. Product development process uncertainty analysis employs previous knowledge in modeling, experimentation, and manufacturing in an innovative approach for analyzing the entire process. This research was initiated with a pilot project, a four-bar-slider mechanism, and an uncertainty analysis was completed for each individual product development step. The uncertainty of the final product was then determined by combining uncertainties from the individual steps. The uncertainty percentage contributions of each term to the uncertainty of the final product were also calculated. The combination of uncertainties in the individual steps and calculation of the percentage contributions of the terms have not been done in the past. New techniques were developed to evaluate the entire product development process in an uncertainty sense. The techniques developed in this work will be extended to other processes in future work.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/20205

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