Introduction to Quality Engineering / Quality ControlAFAQAHMED JAMADAR
Quality Control Introduction,
Definition and concept of quality,
Quality control,
Set up policy and objectives of quality control
Quality of design and quality of conformance
Compromise between quality & cost
Quality cost and planning for quality
Purpose Statement:
To provide an overview of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) techniques, which are used to minimize product cost through design and process improvements.
Engineering design is a systematic, intelligent process in which engineers
generate, evaluate, and specify solutions for devices, systems, or processes whose
form(s) and function(s) achieve clients’ objectives and users’ needs while satisfying
a specified set of constraints. In other words, engineering design is a thoughtful
process for generating plans or schemes for devices, systems, or processes that attain
given objectives while adhering to specified constraints.
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The concept generation process begins with a set of customer needs and target specifications and results in a set of product concepts from which the team will make a final selection.
Introduction to Quality Engineering / Quality ControlAFAQAHMED JAMADAR
Quality Control Introduction,
Definition and concept of quality,
Quality control,
Set up policy and objectives of quality control
Quality of design and quality of conformance
Compromise between quality & cost
Quality cost and planning for quality
Purpose Statement:
To provide an overview of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) techniques, which are used to minimize product cost through design and process improvements.
Engineering design is a systematic, intelligent process in which engineers
generate, evaluate, and specify solutions for devices, systems, or processes whose
form(s) and function(s) achieve clients’ objectives and users’ needs while satisfying
a specified set of constraints. In other words, engineering design is a thoughtful
process for generating plans or schemes for devices, systems, or processes that attain
given objectives while adhering to specified constraints.
Contact me at naseel@live.com
The concept generation process begins with a set of customer needs and target specifications and results in a set of product concepts from which the team will make a final selection.
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2. Concept Generation:
Number of alternate solution concepts attempting to satisfy the need.
Difficulties/Issues
Limited knowledge/data
Conceptual solutions - Rough/abstract ideas
Consensus among team members
Other ??
3. Some methods
External Decision – company chairman?, customer
Product Champion – personal preference
Voting – team consensus (subjective)
Intuition – feel good factor
Prototype & test – Expensive & time consuming
Decision Matrices – relatively more objective
7. What is it and what does it do?
The Pugh Matrix (PM) is a type of Matrix Diagram that allows for the
comparison of a number of design candidates leading ultimately to which
best meets a set of criteria.
It also permits a degree of qualitative optimization of the alternative
concepts through the generation of hybrid candidates.
The Pugh Matrix is easy to use and relies upon a series of pairwise
comparisons between design candidates against a number of criteria or
requirements. One of its key advantages over other decision-making tools
such as the Decision Matrix is its ability to handle a large number of
decision criteria.
The Pugh Matrix
8. Why do it?
Many decisions often concern a number of interwoven factors or criteria for
which humans struggle to handle the complexity resulting in inconsistent
and irrational decisions.
The Pugh Matrix provides a simple approach to taking these multiple factors
into account when reaching a decision.
By exploiting people's innate ability to make a pairwise comparison allows
for subjective opinions about one alternative versus another to be made
more objective.
The Pugh Matrix also allows for simple sensitivity analysis to be performed,
thereby providing some information as to the robustness of a particular
decision
The Pugh Matrix
9. Where and when to use it?
Fundamentally a Pugh Matrix can be used
whenever there is the need to decide
amongst a number of alternatives.
Although specifically developed by Stuart
Pugh1 to help in selecting between a
number of design
alternatives, the tools has in recent years
be used a general purpose decision
making aid because of its ease of use.
The Pugh Matrix
10. Who does it?
An individual or team can use a Pugh
Matrix. It is important to emphasize,
however, that the quality of the outcome is
dependent upon the experience of team or
individual.
How to do it?
Overview
The basic concept of a Pugh Matrix is both
simple and elegant. Figure 1 shows a
completed Pugh Matrix that has been used
to evaluate and select from a number of
design alternatives.
The Pugh Matrix
11. THE FIRST RUN
Generate multiple solutions to same problem spec.
Depict the solutions (sketches)
Form the matrix
Choose criteria (and clarify them)
Choose datum (pick one of the ‘best’ solutions)
Insert comparisons (+, S, -), form sums thereof
Look at strongest concepts, try to reverse
negatives (combine with complementary concepts)
Look at weaker concepts, try to improve them
Eliminate the weakest remaining concepts
The Pugh Matrix
12. THE SECOND RUN
Strengthen the best concepts from first run
• This is substantial engineering work
• More detailed descriptions will emerge
• Note the plural –develop multiple concepts
Expand evaluation criteria
Choose new datum (pick one of the ‘best’ solutions)
Insert comparisons (+, S, -), form sums thereof
Seek agreement among team on the best concept
Further phases may be required to obtain convergence
“…experience has shown that, almost without exception,
the results of Phases I and II will be confirmed…”
The Pugh Matrix
13. SOME CHALLENGES
“people who have a lot of experience … exhibit an impatience ‘to
get on with it’ and may consider that the procedure holds them
back…”
“strong willed individuals who have a lot of experience and whose
initial concepts have not emerged in the final selection …
commence a defense based on emotion, experience, and
bluster…”
The Pugh Matrix
14. ROLE OF THE FACILITATOR
Controls the flow / pace of the session
Records the results (creates the matrix)
Maintains a tight discipline on the participants
–Comparison to the datum concept
• Preventing tangents
• Encourages clarification of criteria
• Encourages clarification of concepts
Seeks opportunities for divergence (hybrids)
The Pugh Matrix
15. The Pugh matrix is for
• Structuring and representing an evaluation
procedure
–Serves as common visual
–Provides a discipline
–Helps break down self-sealing
behavior
• Convergence
–Eliminates weaker ideas
–Retains a set of strong concepts
• Divergence
–Helps to identify opportunities for
combination
The Pugh matrix is NOT for
Automatic decision making
–”the scores or number … are for
guidance only and must not be
summed algebraically.”
–”it avoids the rigidity and false
confidence of rating/weighting
matrices”
• Completely controlling the process
• Stimulates creative unconstrained thinking
• Due to its lack of rigorous structure”
Pugh, stuart, 1991, Total Design, Addison-Wesley, New York.
The Pugh Matrix
16. better than the baseline a “+” is
entered in the appropriate cell
worse than the baseline a “-” is
entered in the appropriate cell
the same than the baseline a “S” is
entered in the appropriate cell
The Pugh Matrix can also be used
to perform qualitative optimization
by combining the candidate
concept designs to form hybrid
candidates. Figure 1 shows two
such hybrids “Concept BC” and
“Concept BD”.
Figure 1: Example of a completed Pugh Matrix
The Pugh Matrix
17. The Pugh Process
The process for constructing a Pugh Matrix comprises five steps. This assumes
that alternative candidate design options (or decision options) have been
determined.
Step 1: identify and clearly define the criteria for selection. Typically when using a
Pugh Matrix to select between a number of candidate design options the design
requirements can be used either in part or in whole. Ideally the design
requirements should reflect both the user-customer as well as other key
stakeholders including internal stakeholders. The robustness and validity of the
outcome is fundamentally dependent on an appropriate set of
criteria/requirements. Rushing this step usually results in a non-robust outcome
that is challenged and overturned.
Step 2: Use one candidate design option as the baseline and core all
criteria/requirements as „S‟ (some people prefer to use an O) for this baseline. If
appropriate, a good choice is to, use the previous design for the baseline because
it exists and therefore its performance should be reasonably well known.
The Pugh Matrix
18. Step 3: Compare each candidate design option against the baseline design,
criteria by criteria (or requirement by requirement) and decide a “pair-wise score
with:
S = same
+ = better
- = worse
It is also possible to add extra levels of discrimination by using:
++ = much better
-- = much worse
Some people use a 1 to 5 scale where the baseline/same is a 3 with 1 and 2
being much worse and worse respectively, and 4 and 5 being better and much
better respectively
Step 4: For each candidate design option the total score can be calculated by
summing the number of +‟s and –„s. The highest ranked score is the “winner”
but use common sense - DON‟T just select “highest” ranked concept.
Step 5: Having scored each candidate design option consider hybrids by
combining where possible the best from each alternative. This is form of
qualitative optimization.
The Pugh Matrix
19. In this illustrative example the scenario is
of a user attempting to select amongst the
options for domestic use.
The first step is to determine a suitable set
of criteria. In this example the criteria will
be solely user oriented. The following were
identified:
The Pugh Matrix
20. Identifying Criteria
• Cost
• Reusability
• Geometry
• Connections
• Function
• Product life span
• Development time
• Size
• Material costs
• Cleanliness
• Resilience
• Testability
• Development costs
• Manufacturing costs
• Company standards
• Manufacturing capabilities
• Safety
The Pugh Matrix
21. Figure 3: Initial Pugh EvaluationFigure 2: Initial Pugh Matrix for the Toaster Selection Problem
The Pugh Matrix
22. Figure 5: Pugh Matrix with Weighted CriteriaFigure 4: Toaster example with the inclusion of a new criterion.
The Pugh Matrix