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Abstract—One of the trends emerging in the New Product Development (NPD) is the development of lean and six sigma activities. Material cost and design time have to be optimized in order to make the system effective and deliver the design at the shortest time of market with good quality. This paper deals with the approach associated to optimization of above mentioned problems. It is done with the strategy of Six Sigma and philosophy of Lean by using Topology optimization.

Index Terms—Lean, Six Sigma, Topology Optimization

Palanivel Subramaniyam, Project Manager, Mahindra Satyam, Integrated Engineering Solution, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (Email ID: palanivel_subramaniyam@mahindrasatyam.com, Mobile No: 9866015475)
Karthick Srinivasan, Project Leader, Mahindra Satyam, Integrated Engineering Solution, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (Email ID: karthick_s@mahindrasatyam.com, Mobile No: 9701060502)
Muni Prabaharan, Design Engineer, Mahindra Satyam, Integrated Engineering Solution, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (Email ID: muni_prabaharan@mahindrasatyam.com, Mobile No: 8790172431)

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Cite: Palanivel Subramaniyam, Karthick Srinivasan and Muni Prabaharan, "An Innovative Lean Six Sigma Approach for Engineering Design," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 166-170, 2011.