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TY - CONF AU - Macdonell, S. A. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tavakoli, Keihan ED - Tilmont, Manuel TI - Application of Industry Recognised Development Tools and Methodologies, such as Six Sigma to Facilitate the Efficient Delivery of Innovative and Robust Engineering Solutions at Synchrotron Facilities J2 - Proc. of MEDSI2018, Paris, France, 25-29 June 2018 C1 - Paris, France T2 - Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation T3 - 10 LA - english AB - Synchrotron facilities play a key part in the delivery of world leading science to facilitate research and development across multiple fields. The enabling technology designed by engineers at these facilities is crucial to their success. The highly academic nature of Synchrotron facilities does not always lead to working in the same way as a commercial engineering company. However, are the engineering requirements at Synchrotrons different to commercial companies? Exploring the parallels between research and commercial companies, can we show that the tools and methodologies employed could benefit engineering development at Synchrotrons? This paper provides a theoretical discussion on the commonality between engineering developments at Synchrotron facilities compared to commercial companies. How methodologies such as Design for Six Sigma and in particular tools such as stakeholder analysis, functional tree analysis, FMEA and DoE could be utilised in the design process at Synchrotrons. It also seeks to demonstrate how implementation could aid the development of innovative, robust and efficient design of engineering solutions to meet the ever-increasing demands of our facilities. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 184 EP - 188 KW - synchrotron KW - hardware KW - experiment KW - controls KW - factory DA - 2018/12 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-207-3 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2018-WEOPMA05 UR - http://jacow.org/medsi2018/papers/weopma05.pdf ER -