There has been great interest recently in the use of designed experiments to improve quality by reducing the variation of industrial products. A major stimulus has been Taguchi's robust design schema in which experiments ...

Research by economists supports a couple of Japanese management practices that seem to have been underemphasized in many Total Quality implementation efforts in the US - lifetime employment and linking pay to the accomplishments ...

This paper describes a recent effort to infuse the Total Quality Improvement (TQI) approach, popularized by Deming and others, into an upper-division, junior-senior economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ...

Two aspects of Taguchi's methods for analyzing parameter design experiments that can be improved upon are considered. It is shown how using interaction graphs instead of marginal graphs, and how using the sample variance ...

Scientific method of observation and experimentation play a key role in quality improvement. In this article, I provide numerous examples of the use of scientific method and argue that this a vital catalyst for Total ...

In this paper we apply the strategy developed in Report 56 to a general second-order model. For this model we derive the robustness measure and give a series of tables of designs that are appropriate for the possible ...

A cost model proposed by Box and Jenkins (1963) and later generalized by Box and Kramer (1992) for obtaining minimum cost for feedback control of processes is considered. Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to assign ...

This paper describes a Quality Improvement Instructional Approach whose purpose is to improve the quality of undergraduate education by helping students realize their potential for learning in traditionally-taught university ...

This article discusses how an efficient organization is characterized by its knowledge and learning capability. It examines the learning ability of the human animal, the logic of continuous, never-ending improvement, the ...