Total Quality Development: A Step-By-Step Guide to World-Class Concurrent Engineering (ASME Press series on international advances in design productivity) [Hardcover]

Don P. Clausing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1994 | ISBN-10: 0791800350 | ISBN-13: 978-0791800355

This book presents a step-by-step improvement program that unites the world's best technology development and management practices with the power of concurrent engineering, enhanced quality function deployment, and Taguchi's system of quality engineering. The result--a pioneering comprehensive system for total quality product development.

This book shows how to: Create greater product variety, Improve corporate flexibility, Reduce rework, Minimize pseudocreativity, Build team consensus and commitment, Develop dominant concepts and robust designs, Design for manufacturability and maintainability, and Eliminate the 10 Cash Drains that plaque traditional product

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 506 pages
• Publisher: Amer Society of Mechanical (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791800350
• ISBN-13: 978-0791800355
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,118,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pressing the Lean Advantage, December 5, 2004

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Lean Manufacturing Engineer "Ron" (Overland Park, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Quality Development: A Step-By-Step Guide to World-Class Concurrent Engineering (ASME Press series on international advances in design productivity) (Hardcover)

Womack and Jones in 'Lean Thinking' state that each manufacturing organization consists of: An ordering system, A production System, and a Distribution system.

Womack and Jones go on to say, as part of a Lean Action Plan:" as soon as you have flow and pull...in the production System...it is time to go to work on the... Ordering System... pipeline to spur sales and increase market share." In other words - press the advantage.

Clausing's 'Total Quality Development' is about pressing the advantage that lean transformation provides to the organization.

Clausing defines 'total quality development' as "the modern way of developing new prducts that will be competitive in the global economy" and goes on to say 'Total Quality Development' "combines the best management, strategy, and teamwork resulting in greatly reduced new product development time, a reduction in new product development costs, and increased product variety that together result in increased customer satisfaction".

Fine - you say, but what exactly is 'Total Quality Development'?

It is the integration of concurrent engineering, quality function deployment (QFD), and Taguchi's quality engineering into a total product development process.

Clausing's stated objective in writing this book is "to transform product development to achieve competitiveness in the global economy"

This book takes my breath away. If you are asking yourself what is next after installing flow and pull for your product family this is it.

Relevance to the lean manager 9/10

Relevance to the lean practitioner 8/10

Clarity/Organization 8/10

Original Content 9/10