Total Quality Development: A Step-By-Step Guide to World-Class Concurrent Engineering (ASME Press series on international advances in design productivity)
by Don Clausing
Category: Technology & Engineering

This book presents a step-by-step improvement program that unites the world's best technology development and management practices with the power of concurrent engineering, enhanced quality function deployment, and Taguchi's system of quality engineering. The result--a pioneering comprehensive system for total quality product development. This book shows how to: Create greater product variety, Improve corporate flexibility, Reduce rework, Minimize pseudocreativity, Build team consensus and commitment, Develop dominant concepts and robust designs, Design for manufacturability and maintainability, and Eliminate the 10 Cash Drains that plaque traditional product development.