Journals

AC Thornton, 2001, “Optimism vs. Pessimism: Design Decisions in the Face of Process Capability Uncertainty,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design 123(3), 313-321.

M W Dickinson, AC Thornton, and S Graves 2001, “Technology Portfolio Management: Optimizing Interdependent Projects Over Multiple Time Periods,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 48(4), 518-527.

AC Thornton, S Donnelly, and B Ertan, 2000, “More than Just Robust Design: Why Product Development Organizations Still Contend with Variation and its Impact on Quality Research,” Engineering Design 12(3), 127-143.

AC Thornton, 2000. “Quantitative Selection of Variation Reduction Plans,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design 122(2), pp. 185-193.

Thornton, AC, 1999 “Variation Risk Management Using Modeling and Simulation,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design 121, 297-304.

AC Thornton, 1999 “A Mathematical Framework for the Key Characteristics Process,” Research in Engineering Design, 11, 145-147.

Conference Articles/Book Chapters

Wei, YF, Thornton, A.C. (2002) “Concurrent Design for Optimal Production Performance.” Proceedings of ASME Design For Manufacture Conference, DETC2002/DFM-34163, Montreal, Canada

D Kern and AC Thornton, 2002, “Structured Indexing of Process Capability Data”, Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, ASME Design Technical Conferences, Montreal, Canada.

AC Thornton, 2001, “The Use of Process Capability Data in Design” in Data Mining for Design and Manufacturing: Methods and Applications, Dan Braha (Editor), Kluwer Academic Publishers.

YF Wei and AC Thornton, 2000, “Tube Production And Assembly Systems: The Impact Of Compliance And Variability On Yield” Design for Manufacturing Conference, ASME Design Technical Conferences, Baltimore, MD.

M Tata and AC Thornton, 1999, “Process Capability Database Usage in Industry: Myth vs. Reality,” Design for Manufacturing Conference, ASME Design Technical Conferences, Las Vegas, NV.

TJ Chen and AC Thornton, 1999, “Quantitative Selection of Inspection Plan,” Design Theory and Methodology Conference, ASME Design Technical Conferences, Las Vegas, NV.

AC Thornton, 1998, “Variation Risk Management in Product Development,” Frontiers of Engineering: Reports from Leading Edge Engineering from the 1997 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy Press.

MIT Theses

Daniel Kern, 2003, Ph.D., “Forecasting Manufacturing Variation Using Historical Process Capability Data: Applications for Random Assembly, Selective Assembly, and Serial Processing”

Yu-Feng Wei, 2001, Ph.D., “Concurrent Design for Optimal Quality and Cycle Time”

Tony Chen, 1999, M. Eng. “Quantitative Selection of Inspection Plans for Variation Risk Management”

Michael W. Dickenson,1999, M. Eng. “Technology Portfolio Management: Optimizing Interdependent Projects Over Multiple Time Periods”

Melissa Tata, 1999, M. Eng. “The Effective Use of Process Capability Databases for Design”

Basak Ertan, 1998, M. Eng. “Analysis of Key Characteristic Methods and Enablers Used in Variation Risk Management”

Cheryl Leland, 1997, M. Eng. “Effective Teams during Vehicle Development and Launch,” June 1997.