Learning Robust Design Methodology: Online programme for engineers

Learning Robust Design Methodologies (LearnRDM) aims to provide a web delivered blended learning course for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to in-house train their engineers in Robust Design Methodologies (RDMs). Robust Design Methodologies (RDMs) provides a proven portfolio of techniques capable of retaining process and product based information. This generated knowledge can be stored in the form of statistical models of products and processes. This allows the transfer of tacit to explicit knowledge. This course will provide engineers with educational material tailored to the implementation of robust design in manufacturing and product development in SMEs, enabling the development of more pro-active rather than reactive metrics, initiating the concept of problem prevention rather than simply problem solving. These tools will allow these SMEs to change their metrics away from talking about defects, to metrics that talk about function. LearnRDM will provide engineers in SMEs with valuable transferable skills to meet the challenges that face their companies and their own future career development.