Development of a method to analyze the impact of manufacturing systems engineering on product quality

Product quality is one key performance indicator for manufacturing systems with growing importance. Among others it depends strongly on manufacturing properties and parameters defined within the engineering process of the manufacturing system creating these products. Thus, manufacturing systems engineering quality directly influences product quality. To control the reachable product quality within the engineering process, the dependencies between engineering process, manufacturing system, and product have to be known and used within the engineering process as guidance. Within this paper a method is described which can be used to analyze the dependency of product properties and, thereby, product quality from engineering activities.