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Role of Robust Engineering in Product Development

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Principles of Robust Engineering (some times referred to as Taguchi Methods) have been successfully applied in many applications across the globe and have resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings besides having robust products/service. Robustness can be defined as designing a product/service in such a way that its performance is similar across all customer usage conditions. In this paper we will describe the applicability of robust engineering principles in total product/service development with emphasis on the robustness aspects. We discuss several robustness strategies with case examples.

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Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to Dr. Genichi Taguchi for his tireless efforts in promoting the robust engineering concepts and for allowing to use circuit stability design case example in this paper. The author is also grateful to Mr. Shin Taguchi for allowing to use design of brake system case study in this paper.

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  1. Bank of America and MIT, Boston, MA, 02110, USA

    Rajesh Jugulum

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  1. General Motors India Pvt. Ltd, Whitefield Rd., Bangalore, 560066, India

    N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan

  2. Manufacturing Systems Research Lab., General Motors R & D Center, Mound Road 30500, Warren, 48090, U.S.A.

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Jugulum, R. (2009). Role of Robust Engineering in Product Development. In: Raghavan, N., Cafeo, J. (eds) Product Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2860-0_8

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