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Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) offers engineers powerful opportunities to develop more successful systems, software, hardware, and processes. In Applying Design for Six Sigma to Software and Hardware Systems, two leading experts offer a realistic, step-by-step process for succeeding with DFSS. Their clear, start-to-finish roadmap is designed for successfully developing complex high-technology products and systems that require both software and hardware development.
Drawing on their unsurpassed experience leading Six Sigma at Motorola, the authors cover the entire project lifecycle, from business case through scheduling, customer-driven requirements gathering through execution. They provide real-world examples for applying their techniques to software alone, hardware alone, and systems composed of both. Product developers will find proven job aids and specific guidance about what teams and team members need to do at every stage.
Using this book’s integrated, systems approach, marketers, software professionals, and hardware developers can converge all their efforts on what really matters: addressing the customer’s true needs.
Learn how to
- Ensure that your entire team shares a solid understanding of customer needs
- Define measurable critical parameters that reflect customer requirements
- Thoroughly assess business case risk and opportunity in the context of product roadmaps and portfolios
- Prioritize development decisions and scheduling in the face of resource constraints
- Flow critical parameters down to quantifiable, verifiable requirements for every sub-process, subsystem, and component
- Use predictive engineering and advanced optimization to build products that robustly handle variations in manufacturing and usage
- Verify system capabilities and reliability based on pilots or early production samples
- Master new statistical techniques for ensuring that supply chains deliver on time, with minimal inventory
- Choose the right DFSS tools, using the authors’ step-by-step flowchart
If you’re an engineer involved in developing any new technology solution, this book will help you reflect the real Voice of the Customer, achieve better results faster, and eliminate fingerpointing.
About the Web Site The accompanying Web site, sigmaexperts.com/dfss, provides an interactive DFSS flowchart, templates, exercises, examples, and tools.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Eric Maass | | Hardcover:
| 456 pages | | Publisher:
| Prentice Hall | | Publication Date:
| August 29, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 013714430X | | Product Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.16 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.18 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.93 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 A Must Have for DFSS ApplicationJan 02, 2012
By AvidReader
If your company is deploying a Design For Six Sigma program, then this book will become the most valuable item in your toolkit. The authors distil their "real world" experience implementing DFSS at Motorola. This resource is comprehensive - starting with pragmatic steps for addressing the resistance to change progressing through planning & including clear roadmaps for each DFSS project phase. Each technical chapter begins with an overview of the purpose of this deliverable in the DFSS roadmap, then provides instruction & examples. It is filled with flow charts, figures, diagrams and analysis results that will enable the reader to apply these techniques to product design & development. If you don't have 30 years of experience applying Six Sigma to design & manufacturing, then this is the next best thing.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Practical advice from a practitionerSep 28, 2009
By David A. Mitchell
Eric Maass has invested over 30 years with Motorola bringing new prodcuts to life. In this book he walks the reader htrough the systematic process. Great handbook for the beginner as well as the frequent user.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!Sep 07, 2009
By John R. Vacca
"Tech Write Independent Reviewer"
Are you a highly skilled person like a system engineer, programmer, software engineer, engineering manager, program manager or engineering student, who is motivated to take your new product development efforts to the next level? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Eric Maass and Patricia D. McNair, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that provides a clear roadmap and guidance for developing products.
Authors Maass and McNair, begin by providing an historical perspective followed by a summary of the DFSS process, goals, and an example of a DFSS project. Then, the authors provide you with a deployment perspective. They also provide you with support in handling the ongoing organizational support structure, including suggestions for governance, and continuing support from the management and the people involved in the project. The authors continue by elaborating on the DFSS process and discuss how both the software and hardware development efforts can be aligned. Then, they delve into the business case risk in more detail, and provide a method for assessing the risk and opportunity in the context of a product roadmap that includes a portfolio of potential new products, and how the portfolio can be prioritized in the common situation of resource constraints. Next, they discuss the project schedule with the associated, ever-present schedule risk, and provide some perspective, strategies, and approaches to handle schedule risk. The authors also address the approach to gathering the VOC to understand what is important to customers, and the determination of requirements and selection of architecture based on customer and business expectations. They continue by discussing the flow down of the system-level requirements to requirements for hardware and software subsystems. Then, the authors discuss the concept of predictive engineering along with the optimization and flow up for meeting requirements allocated to both the software and hardware aspects. Finally, the authors discuss verification and test, in which the capability and reliability of the software or hardware product is assessed on pilot and early production samples.
The intent of this most excellent book is to provide clear, practical guidance with real and realistic examples so that you will have exactly what you need to successfully apply Design for Six Sigma to products and system development projects involving software, hardware, or both. Perhaps more importantly, the scope of this great book encompasses the development project from the development and justification or prioritization of the business case and the associated project schedule through the developing of customer-driven requirements and consequent efforts to fulfill those requirements with high confidence.
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