2. Design is the great Quality Amplifier
183.5 M DKK (Over 5 years)
Keeping Manufacturing in Denmark…
through High Quality & Advanced Manufacturing processes.
But this alone will not make our manufacturing industry competitive…
Design is the great Quality Amplifier

3. Welcome to Robust Design Day 2015
Thomas J. Howard
Sponsors:

4. Robust Design Day 2015 Morning Programme
Mins
Time
Description 30
08:30
Coffee and registration
09:00
Product Robustness as a Consumer Index Thomas J. Howard, DTU
09:30
Levels of Robustness Matrurity Janus Juul Rasmussen, Valcon Design
10:00
Use of DSM at Jaguar Land Rover Steve Harris, Jaguar Land Rover 15
10:30
Coffee break
10:45
Robust Design at GKN aerospace Sören Knuts, GKN Aerospace
11:15
Variation Risk Management Anna Thornton, Dragon Innovation
11:45
Using Computer Experiments to Assess Design Robustness Ian Cox, SAS JMP 60
12:00
Lunch

5. Robust Design Day 2015 Afternoon Programme
Mins
Time
Description 60
12:00
Lunch
120
13:00
Embodiment Design Workshop Tobias Eifler + DTU RD Group 15
15:00
Coffee break 30
15:15
Robust Design Implementation at Rolls Royce Aerospace Andy Parsley, Rolls Royce Aerospace
15:45
Danish Design made different Lars Gravesen, Lumigon
16:15
Designing location Schemes Rikard Söderberg, Chalmers
16:45
Closing remarks + feedback Thomas J. Howard, DTU
17:00
Wine reception

7. DTU Robust Design Group Achievements in 2015
Thomas J. Howard

8. Robust Design Impact Model
If we look at the very core of Robust Design, the main purpose is to reduce the sensitivity of a design to variation.
But if we extend this by asking what the IMPACT of sensitivity is, then we can build an impact model, such as described in Blessing and Chakrarbarti. Ultimately, this links design sensitivity with company profit.
This model is built on a combination of our experience, i.e. actual cases from industry, interviews, papers and cases from our research and projects that we have been involved in as design engineers. We basically asked ‘what was the company trying to achieve in this case’.

9. The Self Assessment - On http://robustdesign.org/
Then, for each of the identified impact factors, it is possible to ask: Is this important to us? How are we performing on this factor? – we get a quick assessment of which, if any, factors that are relevant to look at.

10. Typical Result Top-3 focus areas: Launch date precision
Milestone precision
Tightness of tolerances

11. Requirements Completeness Metric & Quality Loss Enriched Requirement Specs

12. Proof of Suh’s 1st Axiom – the negative impact of coupling functions

13. GMσD Consortium Formed (Global Manufacturing Variation Database)

14. Six Theta® - Robust Design Training
Course 41632
5ects course for ‘Design & Innovation’ and ‘Engineering Design & Applied Mechanics’ Students
Now attracting 95students/semester !!
First Green Belts currently being Certified at Honeywell Aerospace for 20 Design Engineers and Product Developers.
Indications already indicate a programme extension
Six Theta® is a Valcon Design Registered Trademark

16. “Applying Robust Design in an Industrial Context”
Martin Ebro
“Applying Robust Design in an Industrial Context”
Yesterday passed his PhD examination
Congrats Dr Ebro !

17. “The role of Manufacturing in Product Robustness”
Boorla Murthy
“The role of Manufacturing in Product Robustness”
New PhD student started in 2015
But already an expert in Robustness
and Quality Engineering

18. Product Robustness as a Consumer Quality Index
Boorla Murthy & Thomas J. Howard

19. Robustness Perspectives
Design Robustness
Product Robustness
How sensitive a design is to variation
How much a product’s performance varies
Design
Design & Production
For Development
For consumer
Metric: Sensitivity
Metric: Product Robustness Index

25. https://rarewatches. files. wordpress

26. https://rarewatches. files. wordpress

27. she did the research and apparently this is more accurate…

28. Can we make a universal index and certification for product robustness?

29. Requirements for a… Product Robustness Index (PRI)
Dimensionless.
Comparable for similar products.
Suitable to any type of quantifiable performance.
Represents product betterment to consumer.
Suitable for measurement and simulation.

30. Product Robustness Index (PRI) … A high level glimpse of the proposal
PRI = MEAN(WF1●PRIF1; WF1●PRIF2; WF1●PRIF3… WF1●PRIFn)
The PRI is the Mean value of the PRI of each of the functions, multiplied by the importance weighting factor of each function.
PRIF1 = Unit of Variation
Variation Range (V) V:
For 20±0.25𝑚𝑚
PRI = =4

31. Six Theta Product Robustness6Θ
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32. Industry Partners
You can engage with us by:
Submitting products for indexing
Providing samples
Assisting with analysis and testing protocols
Academic Partners
Reviewing our proposed index and identifying weaknesses
Proposing improvements
Independently indexing products to test objectivity

33. Questions? Thomas J. Howard Head or Robust Design Group
Tel:
Skype: thomas-james-howard