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Using Taguchi to optimise performance and product cost at the conceptual stage of design
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posted on 2013-03-26, 11:53 authored by Yee GohYee Goh, Mohammad E. Saravi, Linda B. Newnes, Antony R. Mileham, K. MortonThe difficulty of obtaining a useful cost estimate at the design
stage has long been acknowledged. Data for new products is hardly
available and product specifications are often expressed as a range of
values yet, only limited progress has been made to date to improve the
quality of the average cost estimate at the conceptual design stage. The
aim of this research is to improve the quality of the cost estimate
(average cost) at the conceptual stage of design to assist designers to
consider cost as a critical factor in selecting the most appropriate design
concept. This research investigates the use of Taguchi’s orthogonal array
approach to reduce the variation in the product specification (when
expressed as a range of values) in order to improve the quality of the
average estimated cost for each concept at the conceptual stage of design.
A new process has been created and to validate the process, an industrial
case study has been undertaken.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
GOH, Y.M. ... et al, 2013. Using Taguchi to optimise performance and product cost at the conceptual stage of design. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 227 (9), pp. 1360-1372.Publisher
© SageVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013Notes
This article was published in the journal, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture [© SAGE] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954405413488361ISSN
0954-4054eISSN
2041-2975Publisher version
Language
- en