North Jersey Section 0304 Meetings
2008-2009 General Section Meeting Calendar

General Section Meetings* are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the location listed.
Meetings begin at 6:00 PM with dinner at 6:30 PM and the program at 7:30 PM.

October 19, 2010 Meeting

Quality by Design - Taguchi Quality Engineering

Carl Perini

Taguchi quality engineering is the accepted methodology for DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) projects. It is also employed by world-class organizations who follow current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) to ensure compliance with Quality-by-Design requirements as advocated by regulatory agencies such as the US FDA.

The key element in the Taguchi method of quality engineering for achieving robust designs that provide high quality output at low cost is the stage called parameter design. Through parameter design process factors are determined such that the product’s functional characteristics are optimized and the effect of noise factors is minimized. Here signal-to-noise ratios are optimized to achieve robust process settings.

Traditional non-parameter design fosters the idea that higher quality must cost more money. Taguchi quality engineering instead places emphasis on initially optimizing with low cost materials and components (parameter design) and spending money (tolerance design) only when necessary. “Invest last” rather than “invest first”. The presentation will provide a step-by-step overview of the Taguchi quality engineering method including a case study of a pharmaceutical spray-drying improvement project performed at ASI Columbia in 2009.

 

Reservations must be made by NOON Friday October 14, 2011.
Preferred: RSVP via E-mail at reservations@asqnorthjersey.org.
Please include your membership number and company name in the e-mail.

 

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