The objective of this book is expansive: its seeks to establish a comprehensive overview of DFSS for an audience of business leaders.
Provides a rigorous response to the CEO who wants practical solutions to business problems, and not quality theories disguised as guidance. For the practitioner in design, engineering, production or marketing, the book provides well-written steps, discussion and specific direction on the major aspects of delivering customer value, from problem solving approaches to understanding production constraints.
Design for Six Sigma: Innovation for Enhanced Competitiveness, is a major addition to the literature of quality. It will be required reading for those involved in quality management and will become the reference of choice for those whose only option is to rapidly understand and meet customer requirements. The book outline helps to illustrate the breath of topics that are contained in this pioneering systemic definition of DFSS:
Introducing Design for Six Sigma
Managing Design Programs
Managing Product Design Projects
Measuring Program and Project Progress
Engineering Value into Designs
Planning Innovative Design Developments
Building Reliability into Products
Experimenting to Create Robust Performance
Controlling Product Realization
Greg Watson is Past-President and Fellow of the American Society for Quality.
A professional industrial engineer, Greg is an expert in quality sciences, applied statistics, reliability engineering, production operations, and business management.
Greg offers Six Sigma training for Black Belts and Master Black Belts through the Center for Excellence of Finland.
He volunteers his time to global professional communities of industrial engineering quality, and statistics. His hobbies are writing and encouraging developing nations to establish a national quality competence.
He lives with his family in Helsinki, Finland, but the World is his workplace.
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