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Ceramic manufacturing: Optimizing a multivariable system

Readey, M.J.

Ceramics offer significant performance advantages over other engineering materials in a great number of applications such as turbocharger rotors and wear components. However, to realize their full market potential, ceramics must become more cost competitive. One way to achieve such competitiveness is to maximize manufacturing yield via process optimization. One simple optimization strategy involves maximizing yield by decreasing product variability (e.g., by operating in a regime that is inherently process tolerant). This paper extends this concept to the simultaneous optimization of many material characteristics, which is more typical of the requirements of a real ceramic manufacturing operation.