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Robust Design
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What is Robust?
• A system (product or process) is robust if it performs properly in a wide
range
of conditions.
Robust products Products that are not robust
A pen that writes until Pen that stops writing
the ink is empty after a few months
A car that starts at -20° A car that does not start
A vacuum cleaner that A vacuum cleaner that
maintains suction levels loses suction
Robust Design
• In the design of a new product, any design activity can be called robust, if
it
leads the product;
To have longer life (higher reliability)
To be more consistent with use
To be more consistent from product to product
To perform consistently as temperature and other conditions change
General rules for robust design
Always identify critical characteristics (CTQs) that
quantify customer satisfaction.
Always look for ways to reduce variation in CTQs.
Robust Design cont..
• Robust product design is a concept, developed by Dr. Genichi Taguchi.
• The primary goal of robust design is to evaluate these losses and effects and
determine the process conditions that would assure the product manufactured
is initially on target and the characteristics of a product, which would make
performance insensitive (Robust) to environmental and other factors.
Designing Performance into Product
• This is the first step in design and it makes use of technical knowledge to
reach the initial design of the product that delivers the basic, desired
functional performance.
• This includes the design system, sub-system and finally at the elemental
level design.
2. Parameter design
• This step aims at finding the optimum setting of the design parameters.
• At this stage, to obtain the optimum parameters, a physical or
mathematical prototype is built for the product based on the functional
design.
3. Tolerance design
• In this step, the tolerances on the product design parameters are determined
considering the loss that would be caused to society when the
performance deviates from the target.
• Once the system has been designed along with the values for parameters,
the designer has to set the tolerance of the parameters.
Controllable Table
Name1: Control Factors
Low level High level
Factors
A Flow Rate 30 50
B Pressure 3 5
C Viscosity 10 15
D Cure Temperature 120 160
Two noise factors will be taken into account:
• The air temperature (ambient = room temperature)
• Humidity (ambient = room humidity).