Expedited Award for Novel Research: A Bayesian Perspective on Tolerancing

工程设计领域的一个重要课题是工程公差的最佳设置。目前设置公差的方法承认设计者在指定此类公差时的主观态度，但未能开发用于指定公差和根据新信息（例如来自制造过程的数据）更新此类公差的贝叶斯方案的正式基础。因此，所提议的工作的重点可被视为基础研究，其影响将通过对基本问题的更好理解而导致改进过程。

An important topic in the general area of engineering design is the optimum setting of engineering tolerances. The current approaches to setting tolerances recognize the designers subjective attitudes in specifying such tolerances, but fail to exploit the formal groundwork for developing a Bayesian scheme for specifying tolerances and for updating such tolerances in the light of new information, such as data from a manufacturing process. Thus, the focus of the proposed work can be viewed as foundational research and impact would result in improved processes through an improved understanding of fundamental issues.