Design for Quality of Engineering Systems Using Variance Decomposition  
Author Qiuyang Li

 
Co-Author(s) Young Kap Son; Gordon J. Savage

 
Abstract This paper presents a simple approach to rationally allocate means and tolerances to both provide quality and the associated cost in engineering systems. The novelty of the approach resides in the use of variance decomposition methods to provide variance information of multiple responses from full distributions of the design variables. The impact of the method is that it reinforces concepts from 6-σ design. Both cost and quality policies may serve as objectives and constraints in the optimization process.

 
Keywords Quality, cost, variance decomposition, multiple responses, optimization
   
    Article #:  2030
 
Proceedings of the 20th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design
August 7-9, 2014 - Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.