Total quality development : a step-by-step guide to world-class concurrent 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 plague traditional product development Content: Building better products -- Basic concurrent engineering -- Better decisions -- In the beginning : customer to concept -- The design -- Getting ready for production -- Technology development -- Successful strategy -- Managing for success -- The reward.