Speaker Abstract: S-24
Variation Risk Management
Anna Thornton, Ph.D., Analytics Corporation
During product development, most organizations spend a majority of their time worrying about how the product will function given its design/chemistry/form. They develop prototypes and models that, in the lab, function as expected. However, they don't spend enough time considering whether a product will function as produced. Manufacturing processes, by their nature, introduce a wide variety of variations that will impact the function and performance of products. In order to reduce time-to-market and ensure a high quality product, design teams need to identify, assess, and mitigate the impacts of manufacturing variation throughout a product's lifecycle; from design, through launch, through production. This talk will review proven quantitative methods that have helped many product-development and production organizations focus on where to effectively and efficiently reduce the total impact and cost of variation.
These methods have been applied to a wide range of products and technologies including aircraft, automotive, engine design, medical devices, eletro-mechanical devices, optical systems, printed wiring boards, and MEMS.
2004 FDA Science Forum | FDA Chapter, Sigma Xi | CFSAN | FDA
Last updated on 2004-MAY-28 by frf