What is Design for Six Sigma? Design for Six Sigma...

• is Product/Process Integration
• is predicting product quality up front
• is a concurrent/cross functional engineering philosophy
• uses process capabilities to make design decisions
• is customer driven engineering with six sigma process capabilities
• drives quality and measurement improvement early in the design phase

Objective Setting	Qualify customer requirements Quantify those requirements - Can they be measured? Benchmarking and competitive assessment FMEA, QFD, and Cost of Quality
Design & Process Definition	Manufacturing process selection GD&T Development Assembly methods and sequence
Capability Assessment	Surrogate process data Function Measurement Systems Statistics
Design Analysis	Variation/tolerance analysis Capability roll-up Design roll-down Process Metrics
Optimize Designs	Design of experiments Classical Taguchi Tolerance optimization Specification setting
Verify & Control	Define control plan Data driven measurement plan Statistical process control Mistake proofing
Leads to best-in-class quality by design