Conceptual robustness in simultaneous engineering: An extension of Taguchi's parameter design

Jacox, Edwin H.; Lee, Jinkoo; Chang, Tzyy-Shuh; Ward, Allen C.

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dc.contributor	Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI
dc.contributor	Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI
dc.contributor	Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI
dc.contributor	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA
dc.contributor	Ann Arbor
dc.creator	Jacox, Edwin H.
dc.creator	Lee, Jinkoo
dc.creator	Chang, Tzyy-Shuh
dc.creator	Ward, Allen C.
dc.date	2006-09-11T16:34:42Z
dc.date	2006-09-11T16:34:42Z
dc.date	1994-12
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-19T13:19:21Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-19T13:19:21Z
dc.identifier	Chang, Tzyy-Shuh; Ward, Allen C.; Lee, Jinkoo; Jacox, Edwin H.; (1994). "Conceptual robustness in simultaneous engineering: An extension of Taguchi's parameter design." Research in Engineering Design 6(4): 211-222. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45879>
dc.identifier	0934-9839
dc.identifier	1435-6066
dc.identifier	https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45879
dc.identifier	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01608400
dc.identifier	Research in Engineering Design
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/116211
dc.description	Simultaneous engineering processes involve multifunctional teams; team members simultaneously make decisions about many parts of the product-production system and aspects of the product life cycle. This paper argues that such simultaneous distributed decisions should be based on communications about sets of possibilities rather than single solutions. By extending Taguchi's parameter design concepts, we develop a robust and distributed decision-making procedure based on such communications. The procedure shows how a member of a design team can make appropriate decisions based on incomplete information from the other members of the team. More specifically, it (1) treats variations among the designs considered by other members of the design team as conceptual noise; (2) shows how to incorporate such noises into decisions that are robust against these variations; (3) describes a method for using the same data to provide preference information back to the other team members; and (4) provides a procedure for determining whether to release the conceptually robust design or to wait for further decisions by others. The method is demonstrated by part of a distributed design process for a rotary CNC milling machine. While Taguchi's approach is used as a starting point because it is widely known, these results can be generalized to use other robust decision techniques.
dc.description	Peer Reviewed
dc.description	http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45879/1/163_2005_Article_BF01608400.pdf
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dc.language	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag London Limited
dc.subject	Simultaneous Engineering
dc.subject	Robust Design
dc.subject	Engineering Design
dc.subject	Engineering
dc.subject	Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design
dc.subject	Engineering Design
dc.subject	Concurrent Engineering
dc.subject	Distributed Optimization
dc.subject	Mechanical Engineering
dc.subject	Engineering (General)
dc.subject	Engineering
dc.title	Conceptual robustness in simultaneous engineering: An extension of Taguchi's parameter design
dc.type	Article