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Suggests a systematic approach to optimal production and processes. Information on the Taguchi method; Manufacturing problems that can be addressed by an experimental approach; Quality characteristics that are considered in the method's experimental design
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Quality Progress, Vol. 40 Issue 9, p45, 5p, 2c
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Focuses on the evaluation of quality and productivity. Traditional measures of product quality as negative; Quality Loss function (QLF); Signal-to-noise ratios (S/N); Energy transformation.
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Design News,Vol. 49 Issue 2, p126, 1p, 1c
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Discusses the importance of designing products at the lowest possible cost and in a manner that is least sensitive to uncontrollable variation. Steps in achieving a workable product design; Robust Design as a name to signify responsibility of product designer's mission in making the product least sensitive to uncontrollable variations; Importance of close partnerships between marketing, manufacturing, engineering
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Design News, Vol. 48 Issue 18, p254
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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.
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Harvard Business Review,Vol. 68 Issue 1, p65,
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Stresses the need for aircraft manufacturers in the United States to adopt robust design. Advice from American Supplier Institute executive director Genichi Taguchi.
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Aviation Week & Space Technology,Vol. 143 Issue 10
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Features Xerox vice president and chief engineer John Elter's clean-sheet digital copier design that won the 1998 `Design News' Quality Award. Other major quality awards won by Xerox; Design features; Formal benchmarking process; Implementation of quality using `robust design.'
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Design News, 3/1/99, Vol. 54 Issue 5, p100, 6p
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Interviews Genichi Taguchi on quality engineering in product management. Role of top management in quality improvement; Differences between Western and Japanese managers in their approach to quality and research and development; Measurement of robustness; Measures important in technology development. INSETS: A quality engineering primer; `In-spec' versus meeting targets: Ford and Mazda; What price the perfect product?
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McKinsey Quarterly, 1992 Issue 4, p3, 15p
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According to one expert, engineers save focus A great deal of time and money when they on preventing fires instead of putting them out.
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Action Line, The Magazine of the Automotive, Industry Action Group, May 1998
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Difficult to define and vaguely understood outside the technical community, a concept called "robust engineering" rapidly is becoming the auto industry's hottest new methodology to produce dramatic jumps in quality and reliability at affordable costs.
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Ward's Auto World, March 1994
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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.
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Fortune, 11/23/98, Vol. 138 Issue 10, p238B, 8p, 7c
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