Title : 
Reliability improvement of deformation tools with the Taguchi robust design
         
        
            Author : 
Baban, Calin Florin ; Baban, Marius ; Radu, Ioan Eugen
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Fac. of Manage. & Technol. Eng., Univ. of Oradea, Oradea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
As we are moving to more emerging global markets, one of the most important goals of a manufacturer is to improve the reliability of its products. While the reliability may be affected by many potentially factors, some factors are more important and that they have to be identified. The values of the significant factors that can improve reliability are also important to be recommended. Taguchi´s robust design experiments provides an efficient way to achieve these goals and the concepts of the Taguchi´s method in the context of the reliability improvement are emphasized at the beginning of the paper.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Taguchi methods; automobile industry; data acquisition; design of experiments; production engineering computing; reliability; strain gauges; Taguchi robust design; automotive industry; data acquisition system; deformation tools; products reliability; reliability improvement; robust design experiments; strain gages-strain indicator-connector block-board acquisition-personal computer; Automotive engineering; Costs; Deformable models; Design methodology; Design optimization; Globalization; Loss measurement; Maintenance; Manufacturing; Noise robustness; Taguchi approach; design of experiments; reliability improvement; renewal policy;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2008. RAMS 2008. Annual
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Las Vegas, NV
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1460-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
0149-144X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/RAMS.2008.4925798