Robust Engineering: Learn How to Boost Quality While Reducing Costs & Time to Market
Learn How to Boost Quality While Reducing Costs & Time to Market
Will be published approx. on 16. November 1999
Book
Hardback
241 pages
978-0-07-134782-2 (ISBN)
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Powerful and elegantly simple.Achieve higher quality...lower costs...faster time to market
Companies worldwide have used the methods of quality expert Genichi Taguchi for the past 30 years with phenomenal product development cost savings and quality improvements. Robust Engineering, by this three-time Deming Prize winner, along with Subir Chowdhury and Shin Taguchi, is the first book to explain and illustrate his newest, most revolutionary methodology, Technology Development. It joins Design of Experiments and Robust Design as the framework on which your company can build a competitive edge. Case studies of real-world organizations Ford, ITT, 3M, Minolta, NASA, Nissan, Xerox and 9 others show you how the techniques of all three methodologies can besuccessfully applied. You'll hammer flexibility into your manufacturing organization to minimize product development costs, reduce product time-to-market, and fully satisfy customers needs.
Powerful and elegantly simple.Achieve higher quality...lower costs...faster time to market
Companies worldwide have used the methods of quality expert Genichi Taguchi for the past 30 years with phenomenal product development cost savings and quality improvements. Robust Engineering, by this three-time Deming Prize winner, along with Subir Chowdhury and Shin Taguchi, is the first book to explain and illustrate his newest, most revolutionary methodology, Technology Development. It joins Design of Experiments and Robust Design as the framework on which your company can build a competitive edge. Case studies of real-world organizations Ford, ITT, 3M, Minolta, NASA, Nissan, Xerox and 9 others show you how the techniques of all three methodologies can besuccessfully applied. You'll hammer flexibility into your manufacturing organization to minimize product development costs, reduce product time-to-market, and fully satisfy customers needs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
0 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-134782-2 (9780071347822)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
GENICHI TAGUCHI, D.Sc., is Executive Director of the American Supplier Institute, an international organization that trains and consults on quality management and engineering. Winner of the Deming Prize of Japan and the Shewhart Medal of the American Society for Quality, Dr. Taguchi developed the statistical and logical systems for rapid improvements in product quality and product development that have revolutionized automobile and other industries in America and in his home country of Japan. He is also co-author of McGraw-Hill's Robust Engineering.
SUBIR CHOWDHURY is Executive Vice President of the American Supplier Institute. A recipient of the Society of Automotive Engineers' prestigious Henry Ford II Award for Excellence, he is the lead author of the international best-selling business book - Management 21C and co-author of Robust Engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1999).
SUBIR CHOWDHURY is Executive Vice President of the American Supplier Institute. A recipient of the Society of Automotive Engineers' prestigious Henry Ford II Award for Excellence, he is the lead author of the international best-selling business book - Management 21C and co-author of Robust Engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1999).
Content
Aknowledgements. Preface. Chapter One: Introduction to Robust Engineering Methodology. Chapter Two: Robust Engineering Implementation Formula. Chapter Three: Robust: Engineering Process Formula. Chapter Four: CDI/3M Health Care. Chapter Five: California Institute of Technology - jet Propulsion Lab, NASA and.... Chapter Six: Ford Motor Company. Chapter Seven: Ford Motor Company. Chapter Eight: Ford Motor Company. Chapter Nine: Fumakilla, Ltd. Chapter Ten: Goldstar Cp., Ltd. Chapter Eleven: ITT Aerospace/Communications Division. Chapter Twelve: ITT Avionics Division. Chapter Thirteen: ITT Industries - Aerospace/Communications Division and Phadke Associates, Inc. Chapter Fourteen: ITT Night Vision and ITT Defense and Electronics. Chapter Fifteen: Minolta Co. Chapter Sixteen: Nissan Motor Co. and Nissan Tochigi Institute of Automative Technology. Chapter Seventeen: Sampo Kagaku Kogyo Co. Chapter Eighteen: Xerox Corporation. Chapter Nineteen: MTS: A Powerful Tool for 2000 and Beyond. Index.