Robust design as a team sport – mastering upcoming challenges in modern product development
Götz S, Campean F, Eifler T, Husung S, Roth M, Schleich B, Söderberg R, Wärmefjord K (2025)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2025
Journal
Book Volume: 5
Pages Range: 2821-2830
Abstract
Robust Design is essential for developing high-quality products by minimizing their sensitivity to variation and uncertainties from diverse sources. Despite the wide range of approaches from industry and research, it faces challenges due to their siloed usage. Motivated to gain a better understanding of these challenges and to derive implications for how to overcome them, this paper discusses different viewpoints on Robust Design, taking into account different life cycle phases, domains, and system levels. This highlights the challenges of enhanced product complexity and shifting focuses, for instance, when it comes to cyber-physical systems or sustainable design, and the need for collaboration. Accordingly, the vision of a collaborative approach to Robust Design in a team is presented, in which the actors’ strengths are combined to further increase efficiency and significance.
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Technische Universität Darmstadt
Germany (DE)
University of Bradford
United Kingdom (GB)
Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Denmark (DK)
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Germany (DE)
Chalmers University of Technology / Chalmers tekniska högskola
Sweden (SE)
Germany (DE)
University of Bradford
United Kingdom (GB)
Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
Denmark (DK)
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Germany (DE)
Chalmers University of Technology / Chalmers tekniska högskola
Sweden (SE)
How to cite
APA:
Götz, S., Campean, F., Eifler, T., Husung, S., Roth, M., Schleich, B.,... Wärmefjord, K. (2025). Robust design as a team sport – mastering upcoming challenges in modern product development. Proceedings of the Design Society, 5, 2821-2830. https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2025.10296
MLA:
Götz, Stefan, et al. "Robust design as a team sport – mastering upcoming challenges in modern product development." Proceedings of the Design Society 5 (2025): 2821-2830.
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