Design considerations for NDE systems in a factory setting and the application to transmission manufacture at the Chrysler Transmission Plant in Kokomo, Indiana

Conference · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:39744

LaChapell, M; Perkins, D E; Schneberk, D J ^[1]; Erb, S H; Nicholson, R E ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
2. Chrysler Motors, Kokomo, IN (United States). Transmission Plant

Chrysler Corp. and LLNL have entered into a collaboration to enhance the NDE technology at the Kokomo transmission plant. The project spans 3 years and a wide variety of different projects. Goals are making NDE automated, reliable, and capable of avoiding destructive testing. This requires NDE systems to be better utilized by quality teams on the shop floor and better connected for providing in one place a sufficient set of data for identifying problems in a manufacturing operation, and prescribing an adjustment. The approach is illustrated on two different processes, laser welding and pressure die casting; in each case data are combined from different NDE systems to enable a decision on an adjustment in process variables.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 39744
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-118767; CONF-9410331-1; ON: DE95009568
• Resource Relation: Conference: ISATA international conference on new and alternative materials for the transportation industries, Aachen (Germany), 31 Oct - 4 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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