Check out this Virtual Webinar on August 6!
MODELING AND REDUCING VARIATION IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING
ASQ Inspection Division Virtual Webinar
August 6 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm PDT
Engineers are taught to create designs that meet customer specifications. When doing so, the focus is usually on the nominal values rather than variation.
We need designs that are insensitive to variability in the inputs; for example, an engineer choosing nominal values for the resistors in a voltage divider that minimizes the variation of the output voltage.
Much of the literature on robustness is dedicated to experimental techniques, particularly Taguchi techniques. Taguchi techniques advocate using experiments with replications to estimate variation. The goal is to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio where the signal is the nominal output and the noise is the variation of the output.
In this Webex webinar, with presenter Bryan Dodson, mathematical formulas based on derivatives to determine system variation based on input variation and knowledge of the engineering function will be presented, along with animations to allow for a user-friendly presentation. If the function is unknown, experimental techniques may be used to empirically estimate a function. These techniques work equally well for designing manufacturing processes.
There is no charge to attend. Additional information and the registration link is available here.