Evaluating ROBOTIC safety using quality function deployment

Yung-Nien Yang, Hamid R. Parsaei, Herman R. Leep, Kosin Chuengsatiansup

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2000, vol. 1, issue 2/3, 241-256

Abstract: Improper design of the robotic safety system could create sources of hazards to humans. Regardless of the robotic safety guidelines defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a synchronous consideration between the safety issue and system requirements is needed. In this study, quality function deployment (QFD) is used to evaluate safety for the design of a robotic workcell to ensure that the safety as well as system requirements are designed to meet the user's needs. QFD converts the consumers' demands into "quality characteristics" and develops a design quality for the finished product by systematically deploying the relationship between the demands and characteristics. A series of QFD matrices is developed in this study, and the advantages and disadvantages between different designs are also illustrated.

Keywords: design evaluation; quality function deployment; robotic safety; total quality management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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