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Further potentials of CAQ tools for fault handling in automotive manufacturing processes

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The example of automotive body-in-white production is used to illustrate further potentials for automated fault handling in operative quality control. A review of pertaining literature on process modeling and control suggests some trends and future practices in research and industry. The paper discusses current results of a research project aimed at devising novel process and knowledge modeling concepts for online fault diagnosis and recovery. The proposed approach differentiates between three different tasks: fault recognition, fault identification, and decision and feedback. The paper thus presents a possible basis for future automation of fault analysis and recovery tasks in a variety of manufacturing environments.

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Reinhart, G., Rashidy, H. Further potentials of CAQ tools for fault handling in automotive manufacturing processes. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 2, 47–54 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-008-0078-4

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