Abstract
A goal of product or process design is to provide good products under normal manufacturing conditions and under all working conditions throughout intended life. Further, the cost of making the product (including development and manufacturing) must be low, and the development must be speedy to meet the market needs. Achieving these goals is an economic and technological challenge to the engineer. A systematic and efficient way to meet this challenge is the method of design optimization for performance, quality, and cost, developed by Genichi Taguchi of Japan. Called “robust design,” the method has been found effective in many areas of engineering design in AT&T, Ford, Xerox, ITT, and other American companies. In this paper we will describe the basic concepts of robust design and describe the following two applications in detail:
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A router bit life improvement study
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Optimization of a differential operational amplifier circuit.
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Phadke, M.S. (1989). Design Optimization Case Studies. In: Dehnad, K. (eds) Quality Control, Robust Design, and the Taguchi Method. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1472-1_10
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