relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/450/
title: Production life of tube swimmers
creator: Robinson, N.
subject: Materials
description: Two humped mandrels, called swimmers, are used in the special tube drawing process of Bundy Tubing Company to size internal diameters of tubes formed from double-wrapped steel strip. The aim of this study was to determine key factors to promote increased life of swimmers which currently fail mostly by metal pick-up. There was insufficient data to build mathematical models for swimmer failure; it is recommended that systematic data collection take place using statistical quality control principles.
date: 1991
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/450/1/Production-life-of-tube-swimmers.pdf
identifier:   Robinson, N.  (1991) Production life of tube swimmers.  [Study Group Report]