The First International Symposium on Robust Design, ISoRD14, is a meeting of experts from the field of Robust Design and Reliability Engineering. The symposium is the efforts of a new cooperation between industry and academic, arranged by DTU Mechanical Engineering, Novo Nordisk, Valcon and the Design Society. The symposium takes places from 14th August to 15th August.
Designing quality for industry and consumers
Robust design has a great significance for industry and consumers alike because it ensures manufacturing products of consistent quality, reliability, function and durability. If designs lack robustness, consumers will experience products of varying quality, or an unpredictable lifetime. Seen from industry’s perspective, designs that are not robust may result in high scrap rates, missed launch dates or even product recalls.
Creating designs insensitive to variance
When a design is robust, it is effectively insensitive to different kinds of variance from, for example, production tolerances, material properties, loading conditions, temperature/ambient changes and time related changes such as creep and wear. The ISoRD14 symposium will focus on tools, methods and approaches to achieve robustness and combat variance.
Academic/ industrial knowledge transfer
The symposium itself has an equal weighting of industry and academic delegates, with a goal to transfer knowledge and to share experiences, solutions and problems faced. The programme is more hands on than a traditional conference asking delegates to solve problems together as well as share their latest research and developments. See full programme and further details here: http://robustdesign.org/ISoRD/
