Design for Six Sigma: A Roadmap for Product Development by Kai Yang, Basem S. EI-Haik, Basem El-Haik

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Designing quality into products and services is a noble goal. Designing quality for the entire business enterprise is the best way to achieve that goal and to do it faster at a lower cost. Design for Six Sigma will show you how to accomplish both by introducing you to the DFSS methodology. This book includes new and useful methods for bringing quality into every level of doing business on a consistent basis. Authors Kai Yang and Basem S. El-Haik take take their readers through the methodology step-by-step, providing both theory and an implementation process.

For example, Chapter 1 provides a great background in quality concepts for the business model. Chapter 2 discusses "What Is Six Sigma?" and defines the differences between regular Six Sigma and DFSS. Next, Chapter 3 provides a high-level description of DFSS, its stages and major tasks, and indicates where and how to use DFSS in a company. Chapter 4 discusses the people aspects of DFSS -- how to organize DFSS teams; the roles of master black belt, black belt, and green belt -- and the deployment of DFSS initiatives in a company, along with highlights of financial aspects of DFSS projects. Next, Chapter 5 is a very detailed description of the DFSS project implementation process. Chapters 6 to 18 are the DFSS methodology chapters. Finally, the addition of a acronym list is outstanding, but an actual glossary at the end of each chapter or as an appendix would have made this book the ultimate road map for product development.

So, how could anyone responsible to management or customers for the quality of a company's products and services not want this excellent book in their arsenal? DFSS is a fascinating subject, and Design for Six Sigma is destined to drastically sharpen your skills in the art and science of improvement. John Vacca

John Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written 38 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

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The Latest Tools and Guidance Needed to Implement Design for Six Sigma in New Product and Service Development!

Hailed as a classic in its first edition, Design for Six Sigma has been fully revised and updated to equip you with everything you need to implement Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in new product and service development.

The Second Edition of this indispensable design tool retains the core of the previous edition, while adding new information on innovation, lean product development, incomplete DOE, mixture experiments, and alternative DFSS roadmaps—plus new thread-through case studies.

From quality concepts and DFSS fundamentals…to DFSS deployment and project algorithm…to design validation, the updated edition of Design for Six Sigma gives you a solid understanding of the entire process for applying DFSS in the creation of successful new products and services.

Packed with detailed illustrations, careful directions and comparisons, and worked-out calculations, the Second Edition of Design for Six Sigma features:

• A one-stop resource for developing a sure-fire DFSS program
• Expert walkthroughs that help readers choose the right design tools at every stage of the DFSS process
• New to this edition: new chapters on innovation, lean product development, and computer simulation; new material on critical parameter management; new thread-through case studies

Providing real-world product development experience and insight throughout, the Second Edition of Design for Six Sigma now offers professionals in a wide range of industries the informationrequired to maximize DFSS potential in creating winning products and services for today's marketplace.

Filled with over 200 detailed illustrations, the Second Edition of Design for Six Sigma first gives you a solid foundation in quality concepts, Six Sigma fundamentals, and the nature of Design for Six Sigma, and then presents clear, step-by-step coverage of:

• Design for Six Sigma Deployment
• Design for Six Sigma Project Algorithm
• DFSS Transfer Function and Scorecards
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Axiomatic Design
• Innovation in Product Design
• Lean Product Development
• TRIZ
• Design for X
• Failure Mode-Effect Analysis
• Fundamentals of Experimental Design
• Incomplete DOE
• Taguchi's Orthogonal Array Experiment
• Taguchi's Robust Parameter Design
• Tolerance Design
• Response Surface Methodology
• Mixture Experiments
• Design Validation

  Kai Yang, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is also a consultant with extensive experience in quality and reliability engineering.

  Basem S. El-Haik, Ph.D., is director of Enterprise Excellence and is presently spearheading the effort to deploy Design for Six Sigma across Textron Enterprise.

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