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| Robust Engineering: Learn How to Boost Quality While Reducing Costs & Time to Market | 
 enlarge | Authors: Genichi Taguchi, Subir Chowdhury, Shin Taguchi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Category: Book
List Price: $58.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1081002
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 241
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0071347828
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.5
UPC: 639785315810
EAN: 9780071347822
ASIN: 0071347828
Publication Date: October 18, 1999
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Powerful and elegantly simple. Achieve higher quality...lower costs...faster time to market Companies worldwide have used the methods of quality expert Genichi Taguchi for the past 30 years with phenomenal product development cost savings and quality improvements. Robust Engineering, by this three-time Deming Prize winner, along with Subir Chowdhury and Shin Taguchi, is the first book to explain and illustrate his newest, most revolutionary methodology, Technology Development. It joins Design of Experiments and Robust Design as the framework on which your company can build a competitive edge. Case studies of real-world organizations Ford, ITT, 3M, Minolta, NASA, Nissan, Xerox and 9 others show you how the techniques of all three methodologies can be successfully applied. You'll hammer flexibility into your manufacturing organization to minimize product development costs, reduce product time-to-market, and fully satisfy customers needs. Project Management is going to be huge in the next decade...--Fortune Busy managers single-source guide to planning, organizing and controlling projects At last there's a concise, compact (5O x 8O) hands-on guide that puts state-of-the-art management concepts and processes at your fingertips. Project Manager's Portable Handbook, by David I. Cleland and Lewis R. Ireland, is your step-by-step guide to the nuts-and-bolts details that spell project management success. YouOre shown how to organize and manage everything from small to multiple projects...lead and coach project team members...and manage within a strategic context from project partnering to dealing with the board of directors and other stakeholders. You'll find out how to: Select and use PM software; Develop winning proposals; Handle legal considerations; Come out on top in contract
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| Customer Reviews:
 shoud rename the title March 13, 2001
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm also surprised by 4 stars & other praises of this book (e.g., Fortune).
the book should be renamed "Case Studies of Taguchi Method" and the "authors" should be renamed as "editors"
it also does not telll you the method & its statistical basis, its strength & weakness compared with other methods, its assumptions and so forth. In addition, it lacks a biblography. Overall, we are just supposed to take a leap of faith. The book feels like "informercial"
 A great advertisement, but short on implementation. December 12, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I am a little bemused by the previous reviews. Being a practicing engineer, I had hoped for an more rigorous introduction to applying robust engineering principles, coupled to real life engineering examples. What I got was essentially a book length advertisement aimed at people who don't need or want to know how to do it, merely order someone else to apply the techniques. If you are a manager considering implementing robust engineering practices and design of experiments, by all means, read the book and convince yourself and your boss it is the way to go. If you actually want to use the techniques, buy a different book.
 Robust Engineering is the most powerful tool May 3, 2000
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Robust Engineering book is the world wide collections of best case studies of Robust Engineering. In Chapter 1 and 2 authors gave a basic explanation of Robust Engineering and implementation strategy which is very easy to understand for any reader. This is book is the absolute necessary for any leaders, managers or engineers who want to re-shape their organization and by reading this book they will understand the powerfulness of Robust Engineering.
Interesting March 30, 2000
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
An interesting read. Well written and full of unique ideas. Can be used to accomplish major improvements in any organization.
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