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Better Designs in Half the Time: Implementing Qfd Quality Function Deployment in America [Plastic Comb]

Bob King (Author)

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Plastic Comb: 315 pages
Publisher: Goal Q P C Inc; 3rd edition (December 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1879364018
ISBN-13: 978-1879364011
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,804,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
earliest node time, reviewed dendrogram, new concept selection, product failure modes, parts failure modes, substitute quality characteristics, key quality characteristics, critical quality characteristics, breakthrough targets, reliability deployment, interrelationship digraph, matrix data analysis, ground hostesses, quality deployment, innovation targets, demanded quality, engineering breakthroughs, exciting quality, matrix chart, quality chart, matrix diagram, cost deployment, fault tree analysis, affinity diagram, double circle

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Instructions Chart, Stuart Pugh, Yoji Akao, Main Correlations, Instruction Chart, Functions Chart, New Tech, First Level of Detail Mechanisms

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This book cites 3 books:

QFD: Quality Function Deployment - Integrating Customer Requirements into Product Design by Yoji Akao on 7 pages
Essentials of New Product Management by Glen L. Urban on page 29
Total Quality Control, Revised (Fortieth Anniversary Edition) by Armand V. Feigenbaum on page 9

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Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing by Forrest W. Breyfogle III on page 321, and Back Matter
Reinventing the Factory: Productivity Breakthroughs in Manufacturing Today, Vol. 2 by Roy L. Harmon on page 201, and Back Matter
The QFD Handbook by Jack B. ReVelle on page 5, and Back Matter
Improving Software Quality: An Insider's Guide to TQM by Lowell Jay Arthur in Back Matter
Measure Up!: Yardsticks for Continuous Improvement by Richard Lynch on page 105

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