Quality engineering uses robust design in order to improve quality by reducing the effects of variability. Variability of the product can be reduced by two stages. One is parameter design which is adjustable to the nominal value so that output is less sensitive to the cause of variability. Other one is tolerance design which is to reduce the tolerance in order to control variability. All costs ...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author: Frank Bescherer Name of the dissertation: Product cost analysis during pre-development Manuscript submitted 24. May 2010 Manuscript revised Date of the defence 29. October 2010 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Faculty Faculty of Inform...

In this paper, to cope with the stochastic dynamic (or multi-period) problem, two new quadratic assignment-based mathematical models corresponding to the dynamic and static approaches are developed. The product demands are presumed to be dependent uncertain variables with normal distribution having known expectation, variance, and covariance that change from one period to the next one, randomly...

Numerous problems with product quality and time-to-market launches can be traced back to how the product lifecycle process is managed within the organisation. This article provides insight into how an integrated value proposition design framework shifts product lifecycle management from a product-centric view to a customer-centric view, through the use of good engineering practices as found in ...

Customers often have various requirements and preferences on a product. A product market can be partitioned into several market segments, each of which contains a number of customers with homogeneous preferences. In this paper, a methodology which mainly involves a market survey, fuzzy clustering, quality function deployment (QFD) and fuzzy optimization, is proposed to achieve the optimal targe...

The goal of the DARPA/Tri-Service-sponsored Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is to reduce development and manufacturing time and cost of signal processors by a factor of four. Lockheed MartinÕs Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) RASSP team has developed an integrated systems engineering tool set which forms the basis for a concurrent engineering de...

The goal of the DARPA/Tri-Service-sponsored Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is to reduce development and manufacturing time and cost of signal processors by a factor of four. Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) RASSP team has developed an integrated systems engineering tool set which forms the basis for a concurrent engineering de...

0957-4174/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.03.048 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 979 845 2230. E-mail address: [email protected] (B. Nepal). Understanding customer requirements and incorporating them into the conceptual vehicle design is the first step of automotive product development (PD). However, lack of quantitative data and undefined relationships between th...

This paper develops a new method for implementing masscustomization, namely, the customization around standard products, or catalog-based customization. The method addresses the customization requirements of a class of products that are complex in con guration, multi-functional and structurally similar. We formulate catalog-based customization as an optimization problem consistent with the manu...