In spec and in trouble: control charts take the 'trouble' from troubleshooting
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Conformance to specifications is no longer the basis of world-class quality, and is now the starting line rather than the finish line. World-class quality is leveled with minimum variance, that is only reached when a procedure is handled with an appropriate level of predictability, or what is known as a condition of statistical control. However, a statistical control is an achievement reached only by the consistent and effective use of the Shewart's charts.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1998
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Electronic testing moves beyond functional checks
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Most manufacturers previously conducted several quick functional tests on products before shipping them off to distributors. Cutthroat competition and increasing customer demands have led to the frequent implementation of highly sensitive tests on low-level electrical signals in functional testing. Such low level measurement have little error tolerance and test accuracy relies on identifying likely sources of error and how to avoid them.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1999
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Baldrige escapes the budget ax
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House approval of HR 3814 did not change state funding for the Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP) despite severe budget cuts to other programs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). BNQP budget was retained at $2.9 million. HR 3814 provides for a total of $468.4 million in 1997 for NIST programs. However, it reduced the NIST budget by 43% from the $825.9 million originally requested by the President.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1996
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