0000000000647370
AUTHOR
A Chakhunashvili
Robust Product Development Using Variation Mode and Effect Analysis
This is a book chapter. No abstract is present.
Focus on failure avoidance and risk reduction through Variation Mode and Effect Analysis
Variation Mode and Effect Analysis (VMEA) is a quality improvement tool initially thought to help product development engineers focusing on variation. The method was inspired by the wide use of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) in business and industry and the increased attention on robust design. However, FMEA is based on the concept of failure while VMEA is developed on the concept of variation, i.e. it implies a step further toward the awareness of variation and its implications in terms of risk and failures. VMEA helps identifying, scrutinizing and measuring the sources of variation and the way they channel through and impact on important characteristics of the system under study.…