Today, a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of superior products to market quicker than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition, contend leading product development experts Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark. Drawing on six years of in-depth, systematic, worldwide research, they present proven principles for developing the cri…
Taguchi methods are a recent and critical addition to the toolkit of design, process and manufacturing engineers and QA experts. This text provides a comprehensive overview of Taguchi methods--to help one "engineer" superior and lasting performance into products and processes. Statistically designed experiments using orthogonal arrans constitute the core of Taguchi methods. This text is a compl…