manufacturing Archives - Quality During Design

Use FMEA to Design for In-Process Testing

We can use FMEA to design for in-process testing, using both process and design FMEAs early during design concepts.

Gemba for Product Design Engineering

If you have quality friends, you may have heard of Gemba. What is Gemba and can it help with product design? Gemba is an ideology. And, yes, it can help with product design! We explore how and talk about why you might want to adopt the term “Gemba” for product design engineering. Transcript Expand If…

Design Specs vs. Process Control, Capability, and SPC

This fourth episode of the “QDD Versus” series focuses on concepts relating to Design for Manufacturability. Understand how design specs fit into process control, process capability, and SPC and where they typically don’t fit at all. We talk about things to think about when setting limits on design features.And, when defining controls for potential failures,…