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Systems Engineering and Design for Six Sigma:
The Missing Pieces within PDMA Best Practices
Thursday, December 8, 2005
PDMA best practices cover many areas of industrial design, voice of the customer (VOC), stage-gate and other product development processes, metrics and comparative benchmarking. Missing from the discussion is how to design a product so that you know, ahead of time, that it will full function as intended, and can be reliably manufactured. Typically companies use a trial and error prototyping approach to identify and correct design and manufacturing issues.
Engineering the performance and quality of a product is critical to the successful launch of a new product This is particularly true when the technology or market are new and there is little relevant prior experience to guide the design process. You can’t guarantee perfection; but you should expect designers to engineer into the product the means to handle unforeseeable contingencies.
How do you do that? In this talk, we cover the topic of critical parameter management, the technical systems-engineering process of linking voice-of-the-customer needs from product requirements to module requirements and component requirements.
We we also will talk about the reverse process of optimization and verification - how do you verify that a design can and will meet a requirement? and what do you change if it does not? Using designed experiments and modelling, you construct actual equations that repeatably determine the actual delivered performance against these requirements for any product configuration.
We will discuss how to make a design robust at any level to external, material or manufacturing factors that degrade performance. We will also discuss how to make a design robust to unforeseen factors through the definition and use of scaling adjustment factors within a design.
This is the means whereby corporations who consistently deliver high quality products manage to do so. They use Design For Six Sigma to engineer their products.
| Date | Thursday, December 8, 2005 | |
| Time | 6:30 - 9:00 PM | |
| Location | PRTM |
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| Fees | $25 for PDMA members. $30 non-members. |
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| Format | Networking & Deli Buffet / Presentation / Networking | |
| Registration | Secure online registration by regonline.com |
Kevin L. Otto, PhD, Robust Systems and Strategy LLC
Kevin Otto is an independent consultant specializing in reliably bringing new technologies to market. Among others, he consults with United Technologies, Motorola, 3M, Cummins, NASA, and smaller medical instrument companies. Kevin works at improving R&D performance through hands-on development, training, project management and NPD process improvement.
Kevin was a Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he co-founded the Centre for Innovation in Product Development, and created new tools and methods for R&D productivity improvement.
Kevin has written a text book "Product Design" now used at MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Texas, and is included as part of several corporate training programs including Cummins, Becton Dickenson, 3M. He has written numerous papers on product development, and authored chapters on product development best practices books, including for the PDMA Toolbook II.
