Article ID: | iaor19981538 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 10 |
Start Page Number: | 937 |
End Page Number: | 944 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Chen Liang-Hsuan |
Keywords: | programming: mathematical, quality & reliability |
This study presents an approach for designing robust products with multiple quality characteristics. The development of the proposed approach is based on Taguchi's concept. However, the robustness is improved in terms of the designers' degree of satisfaction. The approach first determines the transformation function of satisfaction based on the degree of importance for each quality characteristic. Once the