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Ida Gremyr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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adapting the robust Design Methodology to support sustainable product development
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014Co-Authors: Ida Gremyr, Vanajah Siva, Hendry Raharjo, T N GohAbstract:Research on product development has pointed to a challenge in integrating sustainability considerations into existing engineering practices rather than adding additional sets of practices and tools. The question is what practices are suitable for consideration? One set of practices and tools, deemed suitable due to its focus on long-term impacts and customer focus, is Quality Management. Within this area, the Robust Design Methodology has a historic connection to sustainability vis-a-vis quality loss caused by a product not only to an individual customer, but to society at large. Hence, there appears to be a neglected connection to the sustainability area. This paper explores how efforts based on the Robust Design Methodology may better contribute to sustainability and, more specifically, to sustainable product development. This paper reviews earlier Robust Design Methodology case studies that reveal how it supports sustainability. However, the reviews also reveal that efforts so far have focused only on the manufacturing and use phases of a product's lifecycle. Hence, adaptations of the Methodology are needed, such as more conceptual and qualitative tools and explicit inclusion of eco-Design indicators as a response variable in, for example, Design of Experiments. Adapting the Robust Design Methodology enables meeting the key aspects of an eco-Design tool: addressing early integration of environmental aspects in development processes, having a lifecycle approach, and being a multi-criteria approach.
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An Operationalization of Robust Design Methodology
2008Co-Authors: Martin Arvidsson, Ida Gremyr, Torben HasenkampAbstract:In addition to many statistical techniques Robust Design Methodology also consists of a set of principles and practices. Thus, in order to reach the full potential in applications of the Methodology, efforts towards robustness must aim to realize the underlying principles. We characterize Robust Design Methodology by three principles: awareness of variation, insensitivity to noise factors, and continuous applicability. Appreciating the quadratic loss function and developing a P-diagram are two practices contributing to awareness of variation. Practices for insensitivity to noise factors are on the one hand exploring and utilizing transfer functions and on the other hand creating concepts with inherent robustness. The third principle, continuous applicability, seems to lack related practices and thereby offers opportunities for future research.
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Robust Design Methodology for Reliability: Exploring the Effects of Variation and Uncertainty - Principles of robust Design Methodology
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 2008Co-Authors: Martin Arvidsson, Ida GremyrAbstract:The literature on robust Design has focused chiefly on the development of methods for identifying robust Design solutions. In this paper we present a literature review of conflicts and agreements on the principles of robust Design. Through this review four central principles of robust Design are identified: awareness of variation, insensitivity to noise factors, application of various methods, and application in all stages of a Design process. These principles are comprised into the following definition of robust Design Methodology: Robust Design Methodology means systematic efforts to achieve insensitivity to noise factors. These efforts are founded on an awareness of variation and can be applied in all stages of product Design.
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Robust Design Methodology: Status in the Swedish Manufacturing Industry
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 2003Co-Authors: Ida Gremyr, Martin Arvidsson, Per JohanssonAbstract:While robust Design Methodology is a fairly common subject in the literature on quality and statistics, this paper shows that only 17% of Swedish manufacturing companies apply robust Design Methodology. The low level of use of robust Design Methodology is surprising since a majority of the companies think it is important to minimize performance variation. However, although knowledge and use of robust Design Methodology is poor, methods suitable in robust Design Methodology are often used. For example, 53% of the companies use Design of experiments to some extent. The data presented in this paper were collected in a telephone survey of 105 companies in the Swedish manufacturing industry; the response rate was 83%. The sample was stratified with respect to company size, and it is shown that robust Design Methodology and related methods are used to a greater extent in large companies than in small and medium-sized ones. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Paul Brna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Classroom Conundrums: The Use of a Participant Design Methodology
Educational Technology & Society, 2000Co-Authors: Bridget Cooper, Paul BrnaAbstract:We discuss the use of a participant Design Methodology in evaluating classroom activities in the context of an ongoing European funded project NIMIS, (Networked Interactive Media in Schools). We describe the thinking behind the project and choice of Methodology, including a description of the pedagogical claims method utilised, the way in which it was carried out and some of the interim results and the issues raised in the process. Though the project is situated in three European schools, we concentrate here on the evaluation in one UK school in particular: Glusburn County Primary school, near Leeds. The classroom has been very well received by teachers and pupils and the preliminary evaluation suggests some beneficial effects for both teachers and pupils, as well as long term consequences from the participant Design Methodology for some of the participants.
M. Barnes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Design Methodology management
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1994Co-Authors: S. Kleinfeldt, M. Guiney, J.k. Miller, M. BarnesAbstract:Design Methodology management is an emerging technology in the world of electrical computer aided Design. It has spawned considerable research over the past decade, and a firm belief in many people's minds that it is the key to significant productivity enhancements in the next. How close are we to seeing this belief fulfilled? In this paper, we define the concepts that are important to Design Methodology management systems and explain how these systems relate to CAD frameworks. We then examine and characterize 23 notable Design Methodology management systems of the last 15 years in order to understand the state of the art. Finally, we describe and analyze the trends we have seen in these systems and propose where this technology is headed. >
Bridget Cooper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Classroom Conundrums: The Use of a Participant Design Methodology
Educational Technology & Society, 2000Co-Authors: Bridget Cooper, Paul BrnaAbstract:We discuss the use of a participant Design Methodology in evaluating classroom activities in the context of an ongoing European funded project NIMIS, (Networked Interactive Media in Schools). We describe the thinking behind the project and choice of Methodology, including a description of the pedagogical claims method utilised, the way in which it was carried out and some of the interim results and the issues raised in the process. Though the project is situated in three European schools, we concentrate here on the evaluation in one UK school in particular: Glusburn County Primary school, near Leeds. The classroom has been very well received by teachers and pupils and the preliminary evaluation suggests some beneficial effects for both teachers and pupils, as well as long term consequences from the participant Design Methodology for some of the participants.
T N Goh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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adapting the robust Design Methodology to support sustainable product development
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014Co-Authors: Ida Gremyr, Vanajah Siva, Hendry Raharjo, T N GohAbstract:Research on product development has pointed to a challenge in integrating sustainability considerations into existing engineering practices rather than adding additional sets of practices and tools. The question is what practices are suitable for consideration? One set of practices and tools, deemed suitable due to its focus on long-term impacts and customer focus, is Quality Management. Within this area, the Robust Design Methodology has a historic connection to sustainability vis-a-vis quality loss caused by a product not only to an individual customer, but to society at large. Hence, there appears to be a neglected connection to the sustainability area. This paper explores how efforts based on the Robust Design Methodology may better contribute to sustainability and, more specifically, to sustainable product development. This paper reviews earlier Robust Design Methodology case studies that reveal how it supports sustainability. However, the reviews also reveal that efforts so far have focused only on the manufacturing and use phases of a product's lifecycle. Hence, adaptations of the Methodology are needed, such as more conceptual and qualitative tools and explicit inclusion of eco-Design indicators as a response variable in, for example, Design of Experiments. Adapting the Robust Design Methodology enables meeting the key aspects of an eco-Design tool: addressing early integration of environmental aspects in development processes, having a lifecycle approach, and being a multi-criteria approach.
