Six Sigma and Beyond: Design for Six Sigma, Volume VI / Edition 1

by D.H. Stamatis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574443158
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/13/2002
Pages:	824
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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


Promo Copy

From the Publisher