Quality Planning, Control, and Improvement in Research and Development - Couverture rigide

 
9780824795856: Quality Planning, Control, and Improvement in Research and Development

Synopsis

This unique reference provides the tools required to help researchers reduce risks and minimize costs - emphasizing the techniques that achieve and improve quality while also illustrating the great need for change in current laboratory management practices.
Offering valuable guidance for the planning and balancing of a technology portfolio, Quality Planning, Control, and Improvement in Research and Development discusses area activity analysis and Quality Function Development ... surveys data qualification ... presents a sample customer survey for monitoring a laboratory's effectiveness in serving business units ... explores how the use of statistical process control with measurement systems can help predict potential problems before they arise ... covers the alternatives to production-oriented "10-to-1" ratios and interval calibration ... examines the details for performing risk assessments for software development projects ... analyzes case studies of both successful and unsuccessful research projects ... and more.
Generously illustrated and containing useful appendixes that measure research effectiveness, Quality Planning, Control, and Improvement in Research and Development is a vital resource for quality, reliability, industrial, design, process, manufacturing, chemical, mechanical, metallurgical, and electrical and electronics engineers; cost analysts; physicists; chemists; chief technical officers; laboratory managers and administrators; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This work provides the tools required to help researchers reduce risks and minimize costs, emphasizing the techniques that achieve and improve quality, as well as illustrating the need for change in current laboratory management practices. The book features an in-depth study of the strengths and weaknesses of peer review, with checklist examples from the US office of naval research.;The book is intended for quality, reliability, industrial, design, process, manufacturing, chemical, mechanical, metallurgic and electrical and electronics engineers; cost analysts; physicists; chemists; chief executive officers; laboratory managers and administrators; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

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