Axiomatic Design (AD) can be used to give insight into the degree of coupling found in a system (among several other important uses). This then provides the opportunity for coupling and complexity to be controlled and reduced by design. This paper presents a case-study based on a thermal package that uses an exothermic chemical reaction to produce heat thereby replacing heating systems currently used that use combustion reactions involving ethanol and/or methanol. We explore coupling, reangularity (AD), semangularity (AD), and ideality (from TRIZ). We present the design matrix, cascading, information content, isograms, the p-diagram, robustness, signal-to-noise ratio,  bias, capability, and an ideality model based on a decomposition of the design matrix.

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More so than many- Deming, Juran, and Feigenbaum have shaped the way quality is viewed in the modern world. In my latest book, Insourcing Innovation, I write about the systematization and reduction of quality to a science (the book is about innovation but quality is discussed as well). This is an important evolutionary step as quality has historically been very much an art. Read about many of the key elements these three have introduced to the realm of quality in this talk I gave as keynote of an international quality conference hosted by Monterrey Tech in Monterrey, Mexico (2004). You’ll also be able to see some images of a few of the projects I have been involved with.

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