Manager to CEO or Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design

Manager to CEO: Corporate Wisdom for Survival and Success

Author: Walter Vieira

This is an intelligent manager's guide to understanding and surviving in the corporate environment. Filled with practical tips, insightful discussions and advice, the book provides a new perspective on progress, competition, change and many other work-life issues.

Chapters cover: power and politics in the workplace; managing self as well as teams; hiring and retaining good people; creating and managing change; dealing with people at all levels; ethics, values and failure; and thinking beyond one's career and creating a work-life balance.

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Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design: Using Taguchi Methods in Technology and Product Development

Author: William Y Fowlkes

The book contains complete information on the process of engineering robust products that are insensitive to sources of variability in manufacturing and customer use. You will find detailed instructions for planning, designing, conducting, and analyzing the experiments that are used to optimize a product's performance under a variety of "stressed" conditions. An entire section focuses on designing products that achieve additivity, the property that reduces negative interactions. In addition, the book offers a systematic method for optimizing cost, quality, and cycle time. It even discusses the relationship of robust design to such other quality processes as Quality Function Deployment and Six Sigma.

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Teaches practicing engineers and students how to use Taguchi methods and other robust design techniques that focus on engineering processes in optimizing technology and products for better performance under the imperfect conditions of the real world. The accompanying disk contains WinRobust, a software tool that facilitates the process of performing the numerous computations required by Taguchi experiments. The authors are themselves winners of the Taguchi Award for their work at Eastman Kodak. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction to Quality Engineering	1
I	Quality Engineering Metrics	17
2	Introductory Data Analysis for Robust Design	19
3	The Quality Loss Function	29
4	The Signal-to-Noise Ratio	53
5	The Static Signal-to-Noise Ratios	64
6	The Dynamic Signal-to-Noise Methods and Metrics	93
II	The Parameter Design Process	121
7	Introduction to Designed Experiments	125
8	Selection of the Quality Characteristics	146
9	The Selection and Testing of Noise Factors	167
10	The Selection of Control Factors	190
11	The Parameter Optimization Experiment	203
12	The Analysis and Verification of the Parameter Optimization Experiment	211
13	Examples of Parameter Design	227
14	Parameter Design Case Studies	262
III	Advanced Topics	281
15	Modifying Orthogonal Arrays	283
16	Working with Interactions	292
17	Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)	312
18	The Relationship of Robust Design to Other Quality Processes	327
	Appendix A Glossary	345
	Appendix B Quick Start Guide for WinRobust Lite	359
	Appendix C Orthogonal Arrays	371
	Appendix D Bibliography	389
	Index	395