Title: DFSS for shift quality using full-vehicle ADAMS model

Authors: Paul W. Erlandson

Addresses: Ford Motor Company, 36200 Plymouth Road, Mail Drop 11, Livonia, MI 48150, USA

Abstract: Automatic transmission shift quality is a high-leverage attribute for customer satisfaction. Full-vehicle CAE models have been developed to enable prediction of shift quality before the availability of physical prototypes. The four phases of the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) process: Define, Characterise, Optimise and Verify (DCOV) are used in conjunction with ADAMS full-vehicle models. Two candidate meta-models are developed, each of which represents a transfer function between automatic transmission torque output and a customer-correlated engineering metric, Vibration Dose Value (VDV).

Keywords: design for six sigma; DFSS; CAE; ADAMS; automatic transmission; shift quality; transient NVH; full-vehicle models; metamodelling; torque output; vibration dose value; VDV; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPD.2006.009918

International Journal of Product Development, 2006 Vol.3 No.3/4, pp.337 - 348

Published online: 01 Jun 2006 *

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