Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook - Hardcover

Taguchi, Genichi; Chowdhury, Subir; Wu, Yuin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471413348 ISBN 13: 9780471413349

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2004

Synopsis

"This book is a great demonstration of this powerful approach and how it can make a meaningful difference in any type of business. It takes a dedicated engineering approach to implement, but the payback in customer satisfaction and growth is dramatic." -Lou Giuliano, chairman, president, and CEO, ITT Industries No other single volume presents the full breadth of founding beliefs behind the successful engineering practices used by today's leading companies. Helpful to companies in both manufacturing and service industries, Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook provides accessible material on such topics as:* Quality loss function* On-line quality engineering* Signal-to-noise ratio* Robust engineering* Design of experiments (known as the "Taguchi method")* Mahalanobis-Taguchi Systems (MTS)* and more. Prize or Award* AAP Awards for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing, 2006

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Review

"...One can find praise for Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook right at the beginning of the book, where several well-known authorities express their opinions--in fact, admiration. This reviewer totally concurs. It remains to praise and congratulate the authors and the publisher for their part in bringing out this great volume of more than 1,600 pages." (Choice, September 2006 )

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Praise for Taguchi's Quality Engineering handbook

"This book is a great demonstration of this powerful approach and how it can make a meaningful difference in any type of business. It takes a dedicated engineering approach to implement, but the payback in customer satisfaction and growth is dramatic."
--Lou Giuliano, Chairman, President, and CEO, ITT Industries

"Dr. Taguchi's enduring work is of great importance to the field of quality."
--Dr. A. V. Feigenbaum, President and CEO, General Systems Company, Inc.

In the last fifty years, one man stands out as the driving force behind the quality revolution--Genichi Taguchi. Now, for the first time in one volume, Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook presents all the methods and beliefs that have made Taguchi one of the most respected authorities on quality engineering and management in the world.

No other single volume presents the full breadth of founding beliefs behind the successful engineering practices used by today's leading companies. Helpful to companies in both manufacturing and service industries, Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook provides accessible material on such topics as:

• Quality loss function
• On-line quality engineering
• Signal-to-noise ratio
• Robust engineering
• Design of experiments (known as the "Taguchi method")
• Mahalanobis-Taguchi Systems (MTS)

Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook is a landmark resource for everyone interested in quality and engineering, from engineers and managers to upper-level VPs and educators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0471413348
• ISBN 13: 9780471413349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1696