Product Robustness and Risk Management

After-sales product returns are expensive and can damage a reputation. Successful products are designed to function in both normal use and accidental misuse.

All manufacturing processes inevitably create some variability between batches, for example due to tool wear. The best designs can accommodate manufacturing tolerances without a reduction in performance.

Wideblue uses a wide range of tools to manage design risks and improve product robustness. These include Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), computational simulations, Design of Experiments and tolerance analysis.

We can also provide an independent robustness audit of existing products, to help identify cost-effective design changes which can improve the profitability of the product.