Research tools for design margins

MARVIN

Research tools for analysing design margins in complex engineered systems

Three integrated modules — parametric margin valuation, top-down margin allocation, and probabilistic margin risk — built around the Margin Value Method.

Module 2 · MARVIN

Margin Deployment Cascading

The team and institutions behind the Margin Cascading module.

Method

The cascading-of-margins formulation behind this module is being developed at the Division of Product Development, Chalmers University of Technology. It builds on classical Quality Function Deployment and on existing margin allocation literature.

People

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Arindam Brahma, Ph.D.

Module lead

Staff Scientist, Division of Product Development
Chalmers University of Technology

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Collaborators

To be confirmed

Co-authors and collaborating researchers will be listed here as the method paper is finalised.

Institutions

Funding & acknowledgement

This module is part of ongoing research on engineering design margins. Funding sources for individual case studies and the underlying research projects are acknowledged in the relevant publications listed under Literature.

Contact

For questions, feedback, or collaboration enquiries, please get in touch via the contact page on arindambrahma.com.