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Product Design Review: A Methodology for Error-Free Product Development book cover

1st Edition

Product Design Review A Methodology for Error-Free Product Development

By Takashi Ichida Copyright 1996
288 Pages
by Productivity Press

The goal of the world class company is to produce a product or service that offers customers the highest quality at the lowest cost and in the shortest time possible. Product Design Review describes a highly effective method for quality control in product design, as well as its applications in a wide variety of business settings. Take care of the problems that erupt during product development by... Read more

Publisher's Message
Preface

PART 1: DR IN JAPAN TODAY
1. DR Overview -- Takashi Ichida
2. Analysis of DR Survey Results -- Takashi Ichida

PART 2: DR CASE STUDIES
3. DR for Building Constructiion
(Wide Variety, Single-Unit Production) -- Kiyokazu Suzuki
4. DR for Electronic Machinery (Short Lead Times)
--Kazuo Kawasaki and Takahisa Hattori
5. DR for Exhaust Fans (Consumer Products) -- Hiroshi Wada
6. DR for Electronics and Telecommunications (Complex Systems)
--Shin'ichi Takahashi and Takao Takahashi
7. DR for Software Packages (Information Systems)
--Ayatomo Kanno
8. DR for Electronic Components (Multilevel DR)
--Kiyotaka Otsuka

PART 3: DR ESSAYS
9. AI And Databases: DR Tools of the Future -- Tadashi Murata
10. Checklists and DR -- Sadashige Morikawa
11. Quality Function Deployment and DR
--Masaru Wantanabe and Yoji Akao
12. New DOE Methods for Reliability -- Shogo Yamamoto
13. Configuration Control: Managing Product Development
--Katsuyuki Shimodaira

About the Author
Index

Biography

The late Takashi Ichida was professor of industrial engineering and management at Kanazawa Institute of Technology from 1979 until 1991. A graduate of Waseda University in electrical engineering, he previously served as chief director of the electronics department for Mitsubishi Electric Co., specializing in product assurance. Prior to that he was chief director of reliability in the management department of the Japanese National Space Development Agency. Professor Ichida was coauthor (with Mr. Tetsuji Makino) of the 1981 book Design Review, which received the Nikkei Quality Management Literature Award.

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