Abstract: Difficult to define and vaguely understood outside the technical community, a concept called "Robust Engineering" is rapidly is becoming the auto industry's hottest new methodology to produce dramatic jumps in quality and reliability at affordable costs. Ward's Auto World, March 1994 Download PDF

Author(s): Taguchi, G.; Clausing, D. Abstract: Stresses the importance of superior product design as a means of improving quality. High hidden costs of defective products; How design engineers and manufacturing managers can design quality into a product, rather than controlling it from without; Case studies. INSET: Taguchi's Quality Imperatives.; Orthogonal Arrays; Setting the rig. Harvard Business Review, Jan/Feb90, Vol. 68 Issue 1, p65 Download PDF