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management system. In a sustainability strategy, the following attrib-
utes would be persistent and pervasive features:

1. Continued improvement in the effectiveness of DFSS deployment
by benchmarking other successful deployment elsewhere
2. Developing a deployment measurement system that track the critical-
to-deployment requirements, detect failure modes, and implement
corrective actions
3. Enhanced control (over time) over the company’s objectives via
selected DFSS projects that really move the needle
4. Extending involvement of all levels and functions
5. Embedding DFSS into the everyday operations of the company

The prospectus for sustaining success will improve if the strategy yields
a consistent day-to-day emphasis of the following recommendations:

■ Recognizing that DFSS represents a cultural change and a para-
digm shift and allows the necessary time for the project’s success
■ Extending DFSS to key suppliers and moving these beyond the com-
ponent level to subsystem and system levels
■ Integrating the DFSS methodology as a superior design approach
with the company’s design program management system (PMS) and
an alignment of the issues of funding, timing, and reviews
■ Linking DFSS design to design for reliability (DFR) and allowing a
broader understanding of tools that can be used in this regard
■ Stressing the usefulness and soundness of the methodologies
rather than stressing conformance to narrow design problem-solving
protocols
■ Sustaining managerial commitment to adopting appropriate, consis-
tent, relevant, and continuing reward and recognition mechanism
for black belts and green belts
■ Using DFSS as a consistent, complete, fully justified, and usable pro-
gram for reference or as a design guideline to support expansion to
other new programs and projects
■ Recognizing the changes that are needed to accommodate altering a
designer’s tasks from individualized projects to broader scope and
highly interdependent team assignments
■ Providing relevant, on-time training and opportunities for compe-
tency enhancement, the capacity to continue learning, and align-
ment of rewards with competency and experience