A Study on Optimizing the Riveting of Steel Balls for Hand Tools

DOI

10.2991/emim-17.2017.62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hand tool steel ball riveting; Tightness; Taguchi's Quality Engineering

Abstract

Steel ball riveting mainly functions to attach sockets for hand tools. The connectivity between sockets and accessories is directly linked to how tight the steel balls are riveted: if too tight, then it will be difficult to change the accessories or they will even jam; otherwise, they will loosen themselves off. Improving the quality of steel balls lies in controlling related parameters in the process. The paper proposes a model to optimize the riveting of steel balls based on better refining a hand tool manufacturer's riveting process. The study probes the optimized combination of parameters for riveting on the experimental level by combining the design methods of TRIZ and Taguchi's Quality Engineering. By increasing Cpk from 0.45 to 1.46, the results reveal that the process capability index registers a dramatic rise to the required precision, thus improving the quality of steel ball riveting and the stability of its process capability.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ying-Hsiang Lin
AU  - Shang-Pin Li
AU  - Sung-Chin Huang
AU  - Chien-Yu Lu
AU  - Chih-Cheng Huang
PY  - 2017/04
DA  - 2017/04
TI  - A Study on Optimizing the Riveting of Steel Balls for Hand Tools
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Mechanical Engineering (EMIM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 300
EP  - 305
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emim-17.2017.62
DO  - 10.2991/emim-17.2017.62
ID  - Lin2017/04
ER  -