less widely used to govern primary health services in the developing world. This interdisciplinary work analyzes the design …

establish usable metrics for the quality management of the design process. The use of importance levels seemed to be the most …

paper illustrates how the priority rank of design characteristics can change depending on the type of scale used. Practical … effects of these issues are finally shown on a real case concerning the design of a climatic control system for commercial …

A design is robust if the design values for selected performance characteristics (i.e. responses) are chosen to be … invariant to the variations the product will experience. For a design to be acceptable, it must conform to the design … manufacturing yield design is defined as a design that maximises the probability of satisfying the design specifications. Methods to …

operation. As a result, this study presents an effective procedure that uses part stress analysis and robust design techniques …

Notes limitations to measuring the performance of design activity in particular, and non‐production activities in … both. Second, outcome measures are jointly determined by engineering design and other activities to varying degrees, and … definite stopping rule for engineering design activity, yet unambiguous outcome measures rely on the existence of such a rule …

importance of the relationship between the degree of design activity and volume of manufacture, and of the distinction between …