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MIT 2.830J Control of Manufacturing Processes

MIT OpenCourseWare

Treats manufacturing as a statistics problem: every process varies, so the engineering question is which sources of variation can be controlled and which must be designed around.

Level: Advanced
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: Manufacturing Engineering

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