Robust Design using Taguchi Methods
Dr Taguchi laid the foundation for Six Sigma with his methods for Robust Design developed over 50 years ago. He recognised that product and process variation directly related to poor quality and a "loss to society". This variation was often caused by Noise Factors and a traditional approach to quality improvement would be to try to eliminate or control the noise. However, Noise Factors are difficult, expensive or impossible to control and this often led to a cost increase; hence the belief that high quality means high cost.
Taguchi offered an alternative approach: make the product or process robust to the noise by utilising cheap and easy to control factors. By this means we can achieve high quality but without the cost increase and often with a cost reduction.
Having been trained by Shin Taguchi and with over 20 years experience we are uniquely placed to offer you a range of services to help your organisation benefit from the application of Robust Design:
Dr Taguchi laid the foundation for Six Sigma with his methods for Robust Design developed over 50 years ago. He recognised that product and process variation directly related to poor quality and a "loss to society". This variation was often caused by Noise Factors and a traditional approach to quality improvement would be to try to eliminate or control the noise. However, Noise Factors are difficult, expensive or impossible to control and this often led to a cost increase; hence the belief that high quality means high cost.
Taguchi offered an alternative approach: make the product or process robust to the noise by utilising cheap and easy to control factors. By this means we can achieve high quality but without the cost increase and often with a cost reduction.
Having been trained by Shin Taguchi and with over 20 years experience we are uniquely placed to offer you a range of services to help your organisation benefit from the application of Robust Design:
- Practitioner training workshops
- Alignment to your business priorities
- Professional trainers to deliver your in-house material
- Development of company specific training materials
- Design and analysis of Robust Design experiments
- Project selection and facilitation
