Robustness Development and Reliability Growth: Value-Adding Strategies for New Products and Processes

Chapter 7. Robustness Development for Product Designs

Methods for the development of product robustness are essential steps to increase the quality and reliability in new designs with reduced risks for their integration, manufacturing, and service. To the extent that engineering teams apply the best practices of Robust Design¹ in the early development phases, they prevent failures in later phases. This problem prevention strategy contributes to reduced cycle times and related project costs, making them more predictable. Robustness development applied to manufacturing can reduce the variability of those processes with valuable benefits to manufacturing yields, cycle times, and costs. Since the methods optimize designs rather than requiring tighter ...