Title :
Product benchmarking using DFE analysis tools
Author_Institution :
Rhode Island Univ., Kingston, RI, USA
Abstract :
Product benchmarking is carried out in industry as a means of comparing products with those of competing companies and as a means of gauging improvements in new designs. Design decision support tools, such as those for QFD, FMEA and DFMA, are often used for generating comparative data for benchmarking purposes. The availability of analysis tools for design for environment (DFE) enables environmental and disassembly measures to be included in product benchmarking studies. The application of a specific DFE tool to benchmarking is discussed and results for some selected products are presented
Keywords :
decision support systems; design for environment; product development; production engineering computing; DFE analysis tools; design decision support tools; design for environment; disassembly measures; environmental measures; product benchmarking; Assembly; Availability; Best practices; Companies; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Failure analysis; Manufacturing; Product design; Quality function deployment;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 1999. ISEE -1999. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Danvers, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5495-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.1999.765855
