Main Post Since Davisville Toy Company, Inc. strives for Six Sigma heights, which concerns a ‘quality level of 3.4 defects per million opportunities’, it would want to improve on the ‘four defects per hundred thousand’ as regards to parts being broken from the pull-toy locomotive while being thrown (Williams and Covey, 2015). To accomplish the aforementioned, the company operated by Madhu Ranadive out of Stratford, Ontario would be best served if it followed the under listed techniques relating to the success of the design of a new product. 1. Robust design – by employing this type of design, Davisville Toy Company, Inc would be able to facilitate small variations in production or assembly that would not adversely affect the product (Heizer, Render, and Griffin, 2014, p. 165). In terms of robust design, for the pull-toy locomotive – the first thing to look at would be the material used. Davisville Toy Company, Inc. would be best served if it used phthalate-free plastic for the …show more content…
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) – according to Heizer, Render, and Griffin (2014) this refers to the use of specialised computer programs to direct and control manufacturing equipment; in situations where computer-aided design (CAD) information is translated into instructions for computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), the result of these two technologies is CAD/CAM. If Davisville Toy Company, Inc used the CAD in combination with the CAM; the advantages would include - product quality, shorter design time, database availability, and new range of capabilities (p.167). 5. Virtual reality technology - Heizer, Render, and Griffin (2014) wrote that a visual form of communication in which images substitute for reality and usually allow users to provide interactive feedback (p.167). This would enable Davisville Toy Company, Inc to test the product thoroughly via virtual reality prior to the actual release of the pull-toy locomotive while being able to get reviews from selected sample