Course “Robust Design: reliability and efficiency”

Robust Design represents an engineering approach geared toward designing products and processes that are reliable, efficient, and responsive to real customer needs. The course focuses on the integration of key value techniques aimed at maximizing customer-perceived value and systematically reducing unnecessary costs.
Through practical cases, exercises, and structured tools, participants will learn how to integrate methodologies such as DFMA, QFD, VRP, OverCost/OverQuality, and FMEA into the design of robust and competitive products.

Objectives: principles, techniques and tools for robust design

Through this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of Robust Design and the concept of “Value”
• Apply DFMA techniques to simplify the product and reduce costs
• Use QFD to translate client needs into project specifications
• Adopt VRP method to reduce product and process variety
• Analyze Over Cost / Over Quality to eliminate costs not perceived by the customer
• Perform FMEA analysis to prevent failures and increase reliability

Program: from DFMA to FMEA

• Introduction to Robust Design and the concept of value.
• DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly)
  • Analysis of implementation costs
  • Component reduction and assembly optimization
  • Practical exercises on DFMA analysis
• QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
  • VOC: interpreting customer needs
  • House of Quality and matrix construction
  • Competitive analysis and specification definition
  • QFD mini-exercise
• VRP (Variety Reduction Program)
  • Variety identification and classification
  • Functional costs, variety and control
  • Strategies for standardization and modularity
  • Techniques: fixed/variable parts, combinations, range, series
• OverCost / OverQuality
  • Analysis of costs not perceived by the customer
  • Identification of high-impact components
  • Assessment methodology and choice of intervention scenarios
• FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
  • Preventive analysis of failure modes
  • P-G-R parameters and IPR calculation
  • Methodology applied to project and process
  • Guided exercise with FMEA module

Who it is for: R&D professionals, designers and engineers

The course is aimed at R&D and industrialization managers and technicians, mechanical and electronic designers, systems engineers, quality and production managers, and professionals involved in product development and cost reduction.

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