| Abstract: | This paper presents results on ongoing research aimed at developing an integrated computer-aided tolerancing tool. Starting with explicit tolerance analysis equations used to model the relationship between a part's functional elements and an assembly's functional requirements, the reverse synthesis equations are obtained using a simple Jacobian inversion scheme. The explicit nature of the resulting equations lend themselves to conventional Monte Carlo simulation techniques to determine the percentage of rejects being produced given some statistical distributions of the tolerances appearing in these equations. An example is presented that will provide insight on the merits of the developed method. |
