Robust Design and Quality Assurance
Book chapter, 2011

Robust design aims at reducing the effects of variation on a design, without eliminating the variation itself. It is a method of improving product quality with little or no additional manufacturing costs. Robust design methodology was pioneered by Japanese statistician Genichi Taguchi in the 1960s. His work is believed to have had a large influence on Japanese engineering tradition, and he is credited with playing a part in the Japanese industrial boom of the 1970s and 1980s. Today, robust design methodology is employed in companies all over the world, and extensive research has been conducted on the subject.

Author

Ola S Wagersten

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Anders Forslund

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Karin Nordvall

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Timo Kero

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Entering the Tiger's Cave - Perspectives on Japanese and Swedisch Product Development. Dag Bergsjö (Ed.)

37-44

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Other Mechanical Engineering

Manufacturing, Surface and Joining Technology

Cultural Studies

Reliability and Maintenance

Areas of Advance

Production

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10/6/2017