1st Edition

Six Sigma and Beyond Design for Six Sigma, Volume VI

By D.H. Stamatis Copyright 2002
    824 Pages 138 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This volume addresses design improvement from the perspective of prevention by introducing readers to the tools of the Six Sigma design process. The author discusses the issues of designing for Six Sigma, covering the topics that any Shogun Six Sigma Master must be familiar with: customer satisfaction, quality function deployment, benchmarking, systems engineering, value engineering, reliability and maintainability, design for manufact`urability, mistake proofing, failure mode and effect analysis, project management, and financial concepts.

    Prerequisites to DFSS
    Customer Understanding
    Best in Class - Benchmarking
    Simulation
    Design for Manufacturability and Assembly
    FMEA
    Reliability
    Reliability and Maintainability
    Problem Solving
    Miscellaneous Topics
    Innovation Techniques used in DFSS
    Value Analysis
    Project Management
    Limited Mathematical Background for DFSS
    Financial Concepts
    Closing Thoughts about DFSS

    Biography

    D.H. Stamatis

    "This book is pretty impressive. … an essential desktop reference for businesses that are trying to design products, even businesses that are not Six Sigma companies."
    - Technometrics, Vol. 46, No. 3, August 2004


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