A review of practices for robust design methodology

Improvement in Product Development: Use of back-end data to support upstream efforts of Robust Design Methodology

“…RDM practices have been widely emphasized on the front-end of the product development process in past years (Hasenkamp et al, 2009). In order to address the continuous applicability of RDM in all stages of product design, there is a need to identify practices related to the back-end of the product development process.…”

“…Similarly, these principles are implemented through practices, which are then supported by a number of tools. Based on the three principles of RDM, Hasenkamp (2009) have identified a number of related tools and practices. More importantly, the authors have identified a lack of practices for one of the principles; continuous applicability.…”

“…Robust Design Methodology (RDM) is a key QM methodology applied at the front-end of the product development process (Fazl Mashhadi et al, 2012;Hasenkamp et al, 2009). The objective of RDM is to design a robust product which is minimally affected by sources of variation in various stages of the product cycle (Andersson, 1996;Goh, 2002).…”

Tolerance analysis of systems in motion taking into account interactions between deviations

“…Despite this potential, interactions between deviations have not drawn much attention in tolerance management and robust design. 8 This prompts Hasenkamp et al 8 to say, in considering all stages of the product's life cycle, that the development of integrated methods is both a promising and needed aim of tolerance management and robust design.…”

How to implement and apply robust design: insights from industrial practice

“…Novel research approaches on RDM (Ida Gremyr 2005b) and suggestions on how to operationalise it (Arvidsson et al 2006) have contributed to demystify RDM towards an extended audience and novel approaches (Johannesson et al 2013) are gradually complementing existing tools. Proposals have been made on how to integrate RDM in a generic product development process (Hasenkamp et al 2007); (Anna C Thornton 2004), some industrial insight on implementation is reported (Saitoh et al 2003a), (Saitoh et al 2003b), and research has searched for the practices ("what needs to be done") that joins the RDM-principles with the specific tools (Hasenkamp et al 2009 Arvidsson and Gremyr (2008) define the principles of RDM to be based on (i) awareness on variation, (ii) insensitivity to noise, (iii) application of various methods and (iv) continuous application. An extension of RDM towards visual robustness by Forslund and Söderberg (2010) quantifies the effects of variation on users' product quality perception.…”