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What is DFSS?

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Achieving top-line improvement requires new, innovative products and services with features that excite your current and potential customers. Successful Innovation with high-probability is achieved with disciplined approaches and strategically aligned projects. Your new products and services will meet expressed and unstated needs of your key customers and have successful, market-altering product launches.

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) process begins with market segmentation and business analysis, and ends with deploying the needs of customers into innovative, capable, robust product and service designs providing enhanced value propositions in the marketplace. If you are facing serious growth challenges, a full or pilot DFSS deployment can provide a clear path forward.

Lean Design TM:

Leveraging SBTI's trademarked CDOCTM (Concept, Design, Optimize, Capability) roadmap and the best of Lean principles, Lean Design for Six Sigma (LDFSS) will ensure your product and service development experts launch the right products and services with the right features for the right market the FIRST time. Ideal for both companies that have implemented Six Sigma or already use advanced design methodologies, LDFSS is an impressive tool for bottom line improvement and top line growth through superior products and services.

Design in Greater Value while Designing Out Waste

LDFSS Belts learn how to make significant improvements to the manufacturability of products, to reduce assembly times, part counts, increase reuse of components/as­semblies across product families and make products robust to the variability in supplied parts. This allows production to be quicker, at lower cost and with lower levels of inventory, consistently wherever manufacturing sites are located globally.

Key Topics Covered:

-Voice of the Customer
-Product Stage Gate
-Value Analysis
-Product Measurement & Stage Gate Score Cards
-Robust Design

Key Benefits:

-Improved quality at product launch and faster development time
-Reduced inventory costs from fewer unique parts across products
-Reduced assembly times from improved and refined assembly design
-Reduced product cost from improved material selection and production process

Six Sigma Process Design (SSPD)

Process Design Excellence

Six Sigma and Lean process improvement methods offer the ability to optimize an existing process to the limits of its capability. But when you need to design a new process or service capable of meeting new performance required by the customer, Six Sigma Process Design (SSPD) brings you excellence by design.

Appropriate for either designing a process from scratch or redesigning an existing process, SSPD can be applied to services as well as manufacturing processes. SBTI?s SSPD roadmap and tools will give you a step-by-step method for building processes that consider all of the key factors to the success your business:

-Customer requirements
-User needs
-Subsystem planning
-Measurement systems
-Robust design
-Process complexity
-Process velocity
-Control systems

Companies using SSPD have the capability to ensure crucial „first time right“ delivery that can make or break customer and user confidence. Your business will be able to:

Deliver high quality performance from new areas of your business.
Ensure that your new processes leverage and reflect all user needs.
Design Six Sigma into your new or redesigned processes.

Difference between Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma

We often hear critical voices from customers (internal or external) who complain that the delivered product or service does not meet their expectations and even does not function in the way it should. Six Sigma methodology as a tool of process management offers a systematic approach for process improvements- DMAIC methodology consisting of five improvement process phases Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (see Six Sigma). In this way we can improve existing processes producing products or services that meet customer expectations.

A product or process producing the product can be improved by applying Six Sigma methodology. Is not it too late? What if a process is set in the way it should not have been? What if a root cause of a problem shown in customer dissatisfaction rests in an imperfect or even bad product design or process design? In this case Six Sigma functions as a tool for „firefighting“. As everywhere, it is necessary to prevent fire. Then, we need a preventive tool which can be applied to a product design or process design, guaranteeing that the new product or process will meet customer expectations. This tool is represented by Design for Six Sigma methodology(DFSS).