2019 年 27 巻 3 号 p. 22-29
This study was carried out at the authors' firm to select a technology development methodology for an uncharted technology. Although the technology of electrodeposition coating is already practiced at many companies, here we were faced with the development of a production line using electrodeposition coating,and this was a technology that had not been extensively verified at our firm. Quality engineering was therefore being applied to a technology unknown to the engineers. The approach taken involved virtual parameter design, which was used to establish the technology of electrodeposition coating. Parameter design was also performed by means of beaker experiments. Beaker experiments performed on the results of virtual parameter design carried out in areas in which the engineers had little knowledge led to the discovery of effects caused by unexpected factors. On the basis of all this we were able to investigate both parameter design by beaker experiments and technology development by virtual parameter design.