"The Industry 4.0 revolution is shifting the way that quality engineers, managers, and product developers must think about quality control. Super connectivity, IoT, and big data have enabled a transition from traditional "voice of the customer" surveys to the "voice of Big Data," which communicates descriptive information from real customers about how they use products. Quality in the Era of Industry 4.0: Harnessing Data Analytics for Quality Engineering Applications guides readers on how that data can be leveraged to optimize products during use, to anticipate and mitigate the consequences of likely failures, and to build better and less expensive products in the future. In a concise, straightforward style, this book offers readers a comprehensive framework for new quality management methods under Industry 4.0. This includes new techniques like using real-world data to improve product fit and performance, leveraging connectivity to make products responsive to changing needs and use cases, and drawing upon modern manufacturing to make cost-effective, bespoke solutions that can be produced more efficiently. Case examples featuring applications from the automotive, mobile device, home appliance, and healthcare industries are used to illustrate how IoT-enabled product usage data can be used to bench mark the product performances, durability, and detect design vulnerabilities. Automated Product Lifecycle Management, Predictive Quality Control, and defect prevention using technologies like smart factories, IoT, digital twins, machine learning, and sensors are also covered"--
QUALITY IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRY 4.0 Enables readers to use real-world data from connected devices to improve product performance, detect design vulnerabilities, and design better solutions
Quality in the Era of Industry 4.0 provides an insightful guide to harnessing user performance and behavior data through AI and other Industry 4.0 technologies. This transformative approach enables companies to not only optimize products and services in real-time, but also to anticipate and mitigate likely failures proactively. In a succinct and lucid style, the book presents a pioneering framework for a new paradigm of quality management in the Industry 4.0 landscape. It introduces groundbreaking techniques such as utilizing real-world data to tailor products for superior fit and performance, leveraging connectivity to adapt products to evolving needs and use-cases, and employing cutting-edge manufacturing methods to create bespoke, cost-effective solutions with greater efficiency.
Case examples featuring applications from the automotive, mobile device, home appliance, and healthcare industries are used to illustrate how these new quality approaches can be used to benchmark the product’s performance and durability, maintain smart manufacturing, and detect design vulnerabilities.
Written by a seasoned expert with experience teaching quality management in both corporate and academic settings, Quality in the Era of Industry 4.0 covers topics such as:
- Evolution of quality through industrial revolutions, from ancient times to the first and second industrial revolutions
- Quality by customer value creation, explaining differences in producers, stakeholders, and customers in the new digital age, along with new realities brought by Industry 4.0
- Data quality dimensions and strategy, data governance, and new talents and skill sets for quality professionals in Industry 4.0
- Automated product lifecycle management, predictive quality control, and defect prevention using technologies like smart factories, IoT, and sensors
Quality in the Era of Industry 4.0 is a highly valuable resource for product engineers, quality managers, quality engineers, quality consultants, industrial engineers, and systems engineers who wish to make a participatory approach towards data-driven design, economical mass-customization, and late differentiation.