Quality risk prediction at a non-sampling station machine in a multi-product, multi-stage, parallel processing manufacturing system subjected to sequence disorder and multiple stream effects

Design and management of manufacturing systems for production quality

“…The mixing effect means that multiple processing stages show different degradation patterns and actual capabilities and this phenomenon increases the variability in the key quality characteristics of the output products. The mixing effect in parallel machine lines has been further studied in [233]. The authors analysed by simulation the consequence of the mixing effect on the ability of performing a root cause analysis at the inspection points in the system.…”