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Applying Design for Six SIGMA to Software and Hardware Systems
This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. The Practical, Example-Rich Guide to Building Better Systems, Software, and Hardware with DFSS
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 portfoliosPrioritize development decisions and scheduling in the face of resource constraintsFlow critical parameters down to quantifiable, verifiable requirements for every sub-process, subsystem, and componentUse 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 samplesMaster new statistical techniques for ensuring that supply chains deliver on time, with minimal inventoryChoose 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.
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 portfoliosPrioritize development decisions and scheduling in the face of resource constraintsFlow critical parameters down to quantifiable, verifiable requirements for every sub-process, subsystem, and componentUse 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 samplesMaster new statistical techniques for ensuring that supply chains deliver on time, with minimal inventoryChoose 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.
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444 pages, ebook
First published August 3, 2009
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October 5, 2009
Outstanding book with detailed case studies on the application of DFSS in the area of software and IT systems. Agile methods are explored in the software development, which are an excellent source of reference for the rarely documented approaches. The author is a leader in Six Sigma, one of the original designers of the world class business process improvement methodology. His years of experience at Motorola and leadership in Design for Six Sigma techniques makes this a must have in the library of practitioners.
Well done Dr. Maass, your technical depth is well detailed and your polish as a Master Black Belt trainer has made the transfer of knowledge easily digestable.
Well done Dr. Maass, your technical depth is well detailed and your polish as a Master Black Belt trainer has made the transfer of knowledge easily digestable.
May 21, 2020
This book is the most thorough and useful explanation of design for six sigma. Eric Maass has a deep and almost exhaustive knowledge of the development of hardware and software systems, and a good sense of humor to boot. The book provides clear guidelines for product development and characterization and can help to right the ship of any struggling team or organization.
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