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Title: Robust
Quality
Author(s): Taguchi, G.; Clausing, D.
Abstract: Stresses the importance of superior product design
as a means of improving quality. High hidden costs of defective products;
How design engineers and manufacturing managers can design quality
into a product, rather than controlling it from without; Case studies.
INSET: Taguchi's Quality Imperatives.; Orthogonal Arrays; Setting the
rig.
Harvard Business Review,
Jan/Feb90, Vol. 68 Issue 1, p65
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Title: Quality
by Design
Abstract: According to one expert, engineers save focus a great
deal of time and money preventing fires instead of putting
them out.
Action Line, The Magazine
of the Automotive, Industry Action Group, May 1998
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Title: Robust
Engineering: It's Gaining Steam to Slash Time and Costs in Product
Development
Abstract: Difficult to define and vaguely understood outside
the technical community, a concept called "Robust Engineering"
is rapidly is becoming the auto industry's hottest new methodology to
produce dramatic jumps in quality and reliability at affordable costs.
Ward's Auto World, March
1994
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Title: How
to Bring Out Better Products Faster
Abstract: Discusses the approach of defect elimination that
companies are using to design products that not only hold up well
but satisfy consumers. Description of several products using this
method; The Robust Design methods developed by Japanese quality pioneer
Genichi Taguchi; How consumers are nearing zero tolerance of defects;
The surge in quality and how it is acquiring a broader meaning; Enthusiasm
for Taguchi at Ford.
Fortune, 11/23/98, Vol.
138 Issue 10, p238B, 8p, 7c
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