Design for Six Sigma in product development at Ford Motor Company in a case study on robust exhaust manifold design

International Journal of Product Development

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 278-291

  Gerhorst, Frank ^a   Grömping, Ulrike ^a   Lloyd Thomas, David ^a   Khalaf, Faysal ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Design for Six Sigma; Exhaust manifold; Ford Motor Company; Meta modelling; Noise factor; Product design; Robust design; Six Sigma; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745547728     PISSN: 14779056     EISSN: 17418178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijpd.2006.009894     Document Type: Article

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