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9.3.2 Enhancing Commercial Systems Engineering with Design For Six Sigma
Author(s) -
Creveling C.M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2005.tb00755.x
Subject(s) - design for six sigma , commercialization , six sigma , systems engineering , quality (philosophy) , manufacturing engineering , engineering , new product development , rigour , system of systems engineering , process (computing) , product design , product (mathematics) , quality assurance , process management , computer science , engineering management , systems design , lean manufacturing , operations management , business , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , external quality assessment , epistemology , marketing , operating system
The advent of Design For Six Sigma and its integration with a commercial Systems Engineering process has systematically improved rigor in risk management during product commercialization. Many companies suffer from a lack of discipline and rigor as they develop and integrate systems within their commercial phase‐gate process. DFSS is well known for helping “put the science and engineering back into product design” (Dr. Joseph Sullivan, VP Quality, Carrier Corp.). It is also recognized as “a shift from a deterministic to a probabilistic approach to product design” ( DFSS: 15 Lessons Learned ; Treichler, Charmichael, Kusmanoff, Lewis & Berthiez; Quality Progress, January 2002). Organizations that focus on systems architecting, engineering, integration and assessment applied within their commercialization process, are recognized as having a more disciplined and comprehensive approach to improve cycle time, cost and quality. This paper defines DFSS and presents the integration of DFSS and Systems Engineering. The goal is to demonstrate that a DFSS enabled Systems Engineering organization can measurably improve rigor and discipline in delivering critical parameter data for risk management and decision making during product commercialization.