Quality Strategy for Research and Development / Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management Bd.1 (PDF)

Provides a clear, useful framework and methods for R&D,
including robust technology development, product planning, and
product design and development management

Quality Strategy for Research and Development integrates
the Japanese and Western perspectives on Quality Function
Deployment (QFD), updates the strategy of Robust Engineering (RE),
and relates their unique frameworks to current, widely adopted
philosophies of quality assurance.

Featuring real-world case studies, more than thirty tables, and
over seventy figures, this essential guide identifies key issues
and proposes improvements in the current R&D paradigm. It
offers in-depth coverage of technology development, product
planning, and product design and development management.

Quality Strategy for Research and Development:

* Updates the conventional approaches to QFD and RE, and provides
the implementation model of combining them into a corporate
operating system

* Identifies key issues in the current practice of R&D, and
provides solutions for improving design quality and R&D
productivity

* Includes the case studies of designing a functional circuit,
magnetic component, measurement system, and machining
equipment

* Offers the integration models of QFD and other breakthrough
strategies including DFX (Design For eXcellence), DFSS (Design For
Six Sigma), and Blue Ocean Strategy

Written for R&D executives, managers, engineers, and quality
practitioners, Quality Strategy for Research and Development
is also an ideal text for professors and students of industrial and
systems engineering, technology management, and business
administration.