...Edu Grieco Mazzine Junior; Elpidio Oscar Benitez Nara; Liane Mahlmann Kipper; Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk; Graciele Rediske Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw a picture on the reality of furniture industries in relation to management practices for project design of new products...

.... The paper attempts to formulate a more practical view, related to such processes. This is sought to obtain improved ways of experimentation for process and product optimization. Design/methodology/approach Functional forms are discussed when there would be no interactions. A conceptual process...

...Philippe Castagliola; Giovanni Celano; Antonio Costa; Sergio Fichera Purpose The use of control charts to monitor a product quality characteristic requires the selection of their design parameters. To select feasible design parameters, the constraints related to the inspection resources available...

...George J. Besseris Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine product formulation screening at the industrial level in terms of multi‐trait improvement by considering several pertinent controlling factors. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts Taguchi's orthogonal arrays (OAs...

...Tzong‐Ru Tsai; Chen‐Chun Lin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart for monitoring the mean level of Gompertz lifetimes with type‐I censoring. Design/methodology/approach The proposed control chart is developed based...

...Franky W.H. Wong; Patrick T.I. Lam; Edwin H.W. Chan; L.Y. Shen Purpose This paper is aimed at identifying the common approaches for improving constructability and evaluating their effectiveness of implementation. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive survey has been carried out...

...Wimalin Sukthomya; James D.T. Tannock Purpose The paper describes the methods of manufacturing process optimization, using Taguchi experimental design methods with historical process data, collected during normal production. Design/methodology/approach The objectives are achieved with two...

... design product definition and QFD tools and then applied to a number of industry‐based design projects in academia as well as an in‐depth case study at one industry organization. The tool has been well accepted for its ease and approach in both industry and academic environments and already used to help...

... prioritizes the increase in the cost of the product and not the subsequent price rise. QFD aims at generating clear engineering needs from consumer requirements thus, minimizing the reprojecting cost (“cost” should read “waste”) and changes in the products. The existing common concepts between two design...

...Julian D. Booker The improvement of the quality of design and the reduction of failure related cost is seen as a crucial competitive requirement for UK manufacturing industry. To achieve these goals, industry must adopt current methods in support of design for quality (DFQ) for analysing potential...

... used to maximize customers’ satisfaction. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Reliability Failure mode effect analysis Quality function deployment Customer satisfaction Power devices Design surveys through the use of questionnaires; interviews through focus group, meeting face‐to‐face...

...J. Cox; B.G. Dale The focus of the research described in this paper was to identify the key quality factors in Web site design and use. From the factors identified, a conceptual model has been developed to assess how a Web site can deliver what its users expect. The model is based on: ease of use...

...J.S.R. Jayaram; Y. Ibrahim A design is robust if the design values for selected performance characteristics (i.e. responses) are chosen to be invariant to the variations the product will experience. For a design to be acceptable, it must conform to the design specifications. However, due...

... investigations did not provide an effective method to determine the optimal burn‐in condition for a practical operation. As a result, this study presents an effective procedure that uses part stress analysis and robust design techniques to determine the optimal burn‐in operational environment. A case study...

...W‐H. Fang; J.H. Rogerson A number of techniques have been investigated (labelling and grouping, categorisation and importance level) to establish usable metrics for the quality management of the design process. The use of importance levels seemed to be the most effective method used...

...Fiorenzo Franceschini; Alessandro Rupil Presents some remarks about the use of rating scales in quality function deployment (QFD). Data collection and their correct interpretation are fundamental for the proper application of this tool as a support for designing activities. Particular attention...

...Praema Raghavan‐Gilbert; David Phillips; A. Lee Gilbert The total service quality paradigm has been slow in diffusing to the health service domain, and TQM techniques are even less widely used to govern primary health services in the developing world. This interdisciplinary work analyzes the design...

...Chao‐Ton Su; Kun‐Lin Hsieh This study presents an effective means of applying neural networks to achieve robust design with dynamic characteristic considerations. Two neural networks are constructed to train the data set in the Taguchi’s orthogonal array (OA): one to search for the optimal...

... distinguish which component of the processes is out of control. The optimal design parameters of these control charts can be determined by minimizing the cost model using a simple grid search method. Gives an example to illustrate the design procedure and application of the economic individual X...

...Wen‐Hsien Chen; Devanath Tirupati Statistical process control charts have long been used as tools to ensure high quality of process output. A substantial amount of literature has been reported on the economic design of control charts by considering the trade‐offs between inspection cost, penalty...