A Generic Teaching Case Study for Teaching Design for Six Sigma
2006-01-0501
04/03/2006
- Event
- Content
- There are several reasons why it can be daunting to apply Six Sigma to product creation. Foremost among them, the functional performance of new technologies is unknown prior to starting a project. Although, Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) was developed to overcome this difficulty, a lack of applicable in-class case studies makes it challenging to train the product creation community. The current paper describes an in-class project which illustrates how Six Sigma is applied to a simulated product creation environment. A toy construction set (TCS) project is used to instruct students how to meet customer expectations without violating cost, packaging volume and design-complexity constraints.
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- 13
- Citation
- Washington, D., Amori, R., and Gearhart, C., "A Generic Teaching Case Study for Teaching Design for Six Sigma," SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-0501, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-0501.