Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development

• Implementing DFSS at the critical early stages of technology development and product design
• Linking DFSS to best-practice tools and project management practices
• Leveraging Critical Parameter Management, a breakthrough in the management of complex product development
• Step-by-step techniques, detailed flow diagrams, scorecards, and checklists

Build Six Sigma quality into the critical early stages of technology development and product design.

Technology companies can only achieve the full benefits of Six Sigma if they implement it proactively, starting with the earliest stages of technology development and product design. To succeed, they must tightly link Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) to the phases and gates of a well-structured product development process, and carefully manage it through a rigorous project management discipline. Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development is the first book to show them how. Coverage includes:

• Proven techniques for integrating DFSS with program and cycle-time management, technology development, product design, system architecture, and system engineering processes
• Comprehensive coverage of Critical Parameter Management (CPM), the breakthrough technique for managing complexity in product development
• Step-by-step techniques and flow diagrams for integrating DFSS tools and best practices into development and design
• Practical scorecards and checklists for applying DFSS concepts in modern Phase-Gate processes
• Crucial leadership, financial, and value management issues associated with successful DFSS deployment

Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development is a serious text for serious practitioners-and an essential resource for anyone committed to maximizing quality in technology and product development.

I. INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP, FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE, AND VALUE MANAGEMENT USING DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA.
1. The Role of Executive and Management Leadership in Design for Six Sigma.
2. Measuring Financial Results from DFSS Programs and Projects.
3. Managing Value with Design for Six Sigma.
II. INTRODUCTION TO THE MAJOR PROCESSES USED IN DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA IN TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
4. Management of Product Development Cycle-Time.
5. Technology Development UsingDesign For Six Sigma.
6. Product Design Using Design for Six Sigma.
7. System Architecting, Engineering, and Integration Using Design for Six Sigma.
III. INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF CRITICAL PARAMETER MANAGEMENT IN DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA IN TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
8. Introduction to Critical Parameter Management.
9. The Architecture of the Critical Parameter Management Process.
10. The Process of Critical Parameter Management in Product Development.
11. The Tools and Best Practices of Critical Parameter Management.
12. Metrics for Engineering and Project Management Within CPM.
13. Data Acquisition and Database Architectures in CPM.
IV. TOOLS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR INVENTION, INNOVATION, AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT.
14. Gathering and Processing the Voice of the Customer: Customer Interviewing and the KJ Method.
15. Quality Function Deployment: The Houses of Quality.
16. Concept Generation and Design for x Methods.
17. The Pugh Concept Evaluation and Selection Process.
18. Modeling: Ideal/Transfer Functions, Robustness Additive Models, and the Variance Model.
V. TOOLS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT.
19. Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.
20. Reliability Prediction.
21. Introduction to Descriptive Statistics.
22. Introduction to Inferential Statistics.
23. Measurement Systems Analysis.
24. Capability Studies.
25. Multi-Vari Studies.
26. Regression.
27. Design of Experiments.
VI. TOOLS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR OPTIMIZATION.
28. Taguchi Methods for Robust Design.
29. Response Surface Methods.
30. Optimization Methods.
VII. TOOLS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR VERIFYING CAPABILITY.
31. Analytical Tolerance Design.
32. Empirical Tolerance Design.
33. Reliability Evaluation.
34. Statistical Process Control. Where Am I in the Process? What Am I Doing in the Process?