Quality improvement through design

Chipman, H. A. (1998). Fast model search for designed experiments. In Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods. Editor B. Abraham, pages 205-220. Birkhauser, Boston. 

The emphasis in vehicle manufacturing is on using returnable containers to achieve the substantial savings they represent in labor, storage, and warehouse costs. Quality improvement through elimination of dust and similar contamination as well as the improved protection from a returnable system make this a real winner. The system design eliminated the use of cardboard at Bramalea for almost 100% of parts. 

Proeess operational quality, whieh has emerged as an essential pre-eondition to inerease profitability by fundamentally improving the design and operation of the proeess, involves two eomplementary steps (1) eontrol within pre-speeified limits and (2) eontinuous improvement of operational performanee (Saraiva and Stephanopoulos, 1992a). The first step deals with the reetifieation of abnormal proeess behaviour (as a result of speeial eauses) through effieient... 

Below, different reactor designs are discussed in order of increasing technical complexity, and thus, increasing cost. Char quality also improves through the list, but none produce a quality char comparable to carbon black in most applications, even after upgrade. 

A.L. Hines and T.K. Ghosh, Co-Adsorption of Indoor Air Contaminants by Adsorbents, Ch. 10 in Improving Indoor Air Quality Through Design, Operation Maintenance, M. Meckler (ed.). The Fairmont Press, 1996. 

One very effective way to raise quality consciousness and determine the needs of a quality improvement programme is through an opinion survey. Thus, this was used as a start in the process of gaining ownership and commitment to the changes that were to be made. Other ways of helping the workforce to gain ownership of the process were built into the fundamental design and these will be described later in the chapter. Nevertheless, before the opinion survey could be carried out a clear letter of intent had to be delivered to the whole workforce. 

Software quality Walking through SWFMEA it is possible to improve quality requirements, design, and coding. 

If this author was involved, his experience would require emphasis on Risk assessments. Prevention through Design, Maintenance, Management of Change, and Improving the quality of incident investigation. 

Toyota has expanded cautiously in Europe. Its investment policy has been step by step, and it has sought to make early returns. Key to Toyota Production System (TPS) are process and quality disciplines through jIT and jidoka. Toyota s philosophy is more people-oriented shop floor people are heavily involved in improvement activities as well as in production work. Toyota s body shop has maybe one-third the number of press shop robots as Ford, and tends to use simple multi-welders at low initial cost. It is relatively easy to swap suppliers. Tooling must be changed when production is changed between one batch and another, but people are trained to go for fast setups and to improve the process. The layout is designed around people and volume flexibility. 

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