Welcome to
University of Wisconsin-Madison's
Laboratory for Manufacturing System Realization and Synthesis
(MA/RS). The MA/RS Lab, a part of the
Department
of Industrial Engineering is led by Dr.
Dariusz (Darek) Ceglarek.
Our research involves
people working from different disciplinary backgrounds on
projects in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering and
applied statistics, yet we frequently use common tools, such as
CAD/CAM, dimensional measurement and data mining.
The
goal of this laboratory is to develop a science base for a new
manufacturing system realization, synthesis and quality
improvement. It brings together research on manufacturing system
CAD/CAM models and statistics-based methods for design, control,
and diagnostics of multistage manufacturing processes
dimensional quality. In doing so we aim to address the following
areas:
(1)
system decomposition and analysis using the concepts of
product/process key characteristics and their causalities;
(2)
developing statistical methods driven by engineering models to
achieve quality improvement, i.e., integrating models of data
sets with efficient CAD/CAM models of manufacturing systems
instead of identifying model(s) of data set alone as in the
traditional Statistical Process Control (SPC); and,
(3)
application of the developed models towards: root cause
diagnosis of manufacturing variability; distributed sensing
system/networks; and manufacturing system design evaluation and
optimization in early design phases.
Information
and models developed are further applied to study
reusable/reconfigurable multistage manufacturing systems
convertibility, scalability and diagnosability.
