Abstract
Achieving high quality in a product or process is a goal that must be pursued from the very beginning of the project, while it is still at the drafting board. As Chap. 1 brought to the reader’s attention, the design engineer should not only observe the overall product requirements but also carefully consider the impact of each individual component used or to be used in the product, analyzing its capabilities and limitations as well as its dependability, cost, and sources(s) of procurement.
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See in Chap. 2 the attention paid by the Alpha company on these issues.
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And designer of the German V2 rocket during WWII.
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A classic example has been that of IBM in the 1980s where the division making microprocessors clashed with the PC division which preferred Intel chips—and top management was not able to decide which way the chips should fall.
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Al Capone said to a journalist, with a kind word and a gun you can go so much further.
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Chorafas, D.N. (2013). Designing for Quality. In: Quality Control Applications. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2966-0_3
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