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Quality assurance principles require an organizational structure that links responsibility for quality directly to the executive level of the company. Large organizations fulfill this requirement by ...

QFD (quality function deployment) is a family of tools that can help engineers during the early stages of product development. A method of assessing options for new product definition, QFD can help ...

Tracking the financial impact of any support function is necessary in order to illustrate its value and garner continued support and resources from senior management. This struggle is vitally ...

Improved quality and lower quality costs are not top drivers of industrial transformation programs. Quality leaders are largely absent from high-level planning of industrial transformation initiatives ...