The development process of new products and services is essentially a problem-solving process, which needs the support of problem-solving tools. In order to reflect the different problems faced by product and service development teams, several alternative frameworks have been formed to guide the improvement teams. The most popular is DMADV, which stands for definition, measurement, analysis, design and inspection. ?
Definition: determine the scope of the project and guide the daily development of the project.
Measurement: Collect and quantify customer, technology, business and designated design data.
Analysis: Develop and study advanced design concepts.
Design: Design detailed products, services or processes.
Inspection: Confirm the design results and development process, and prove its applicability.
Second, the selection of consulting projects in design for six sigma.
Like DMAIC, the quality of project selection is very important to the success of DMADV project. In the initial stage of implementing design for six sigma, everyone is learning this new method, so it is necessary to limit the project completion time to 6- 12 months.
Many companies implementing design for six sigma decided to list the elements of the new product development process at this stage to ensure that the time to complete the project does not exceed this range. Although in the long run, when the design oriented to Six Sigma method becomes the inherent requirement of enterprise design and new product and service development, this restriction is not needed, but it is still very important to ensure the appropriate scope of the project. For a design engineer, nothing is more frustrating than being trapped in a project with no clear definition.
Design for six sigma can be used not only for product and service design, but also for process design. The project could focus on the following areas:
1) Develop new products and services;
2) Various methods to standardize the same process;
3) Redesign those projects that have been out of control for a long time;
4) Optimize the current process performance.