Index

787

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Back pitch, 294 Bags (material packaging), 361, 362 Balance sheet, 509516 accrual accounting, 512 current assets, 510511 current liabilities, 511512 current ratio, 513 xed assets, 513514 interest-bearing current liabilities, 512 net working capital, 512513 second year comparison, 515516 total capital, 514 Baldrige, Malcolm, 627 Baldrige National Quality Award (BNQA), 586, 588, 589, 616, 618, 619, 625, 627630 Barrel nishing, 280 Basic producer industries, 330 Basic shape code, 74, 75 Batch production, 331 B / C (benet-cost ratio), 581 Beam PVD processes, 410411 Bearing-type connections, strength of, 296300 BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability), 422 Beliefs, management, 457458 Belt conveyors, 351, 352, 354, 355 Benchmarking, 18, 19, 489, 498 Bending, of bolts, 313 Bending process, 260263 Benet-cost ratio (B / C), 581 Best practices, 489 Better Designs in Half the Time (Bob King), 592 Bias (GR&R), 613 Bill of material (BOM), 8 Bin storage, 360, 393 Biodesign products, 421422 Bipolar pulsed dc power, 405 Bitstring representation, 73 Blank diameters, for metal shells, 254 Blanking, 263, 264 Blasting, 280 BL (burdened assembly labor cost), 4 Blow molding, 276 BNQA, see Baldrige National Quality Award Boeing, 286287 Bolt and rivet fastening, 292313 clamping force upper limits, 302303 complex butt joint, 296300 design-allowable bolt stress / assembly stress, 302

design for cyclical tension loads, 312 313 efciency of joints, 295 fatigue failure, 312 friction-type connections, 300302 joint types, 293295 simple lap joint, 295298 slip characteristics, 308, 309 theoretical behavior under tensile loads, 304307 torque and turn at same time tightening, 309, 310 torsional stress factor, 302 turn of nut bolt tightening, 308, 309 ultrasonic measurement of bolt stretch / tension, 310311 Bolting paradigm, 287 BOM (bill of material), 8 Bonding materials, 215 Books, online, 763 Boxes (material packaging), 361, 363 Box plots, 598 Brainstorming: improvement phase (DMAIC), 607 in new product development, 19 for team building, 502 Breached duty, 703 Breach of contract, 708 Broaching, 209212 Brundtland Commission, 424 Bucket elevators, 352, 355357 Budgets, comparing current results with, 523526 Bufng, 219, 280 Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES), 422 Bulk materials: handling of, 350359 belt conveyors, 351, 352, 354, 355 bucket elevators, 352, 355357 continuous-ow conveyors, 356, 358 conveying equipment selection, 350 352 oscillating conveyors, 355 pneumatic conveyors, 356, 358, 359 screw conveyors, 351, 353 vibrating conveyors, 355, 358 storage of, 360365 bins / silos / hoppers, 360 ow-assisting devices and feeders, 361 open-yard, 360 packaging of materials, 361364 transportation of materials, 363, 365 Bulk solids handling, 350