Quality Engineering attempts to illuminate the economic significance of quality problems and determine methods of solving them independent of the production process.
It differs from quality control, which is used during the production process to affect quality.
Quality Engineering is concerned with variety and quality; variability loss and tolerance; determining tolerances; tolerance design and experimental design; off-line quality control; parameter design and tolerance design; and the design of experiments.
A portal site with Quality-related acronyms, a glossary, lists, links, educational programs, topical briefs, vendor lists and business links. Site also has Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) forms that can filled and saved online. www.thequalityportal.com
Information about the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Criteria for earning the award. The history of the award and information on past awardees. www.quality.nist.gov
Online course in Statistical Process Control (SPC). Includes a free primer in statistics, variation, process capability, control charts for variables and control charts for attributes. www.margaret.net/spc
Includes articles, tools and resources for implementing Six Sigma Quality, Total Quality Management, ISO9000, and process improvements programs. www.isixsigma.com
Taguchi's Loss Function is a method of measuring quality central to Taguchi's approach to design. It establishes a financial measure of the user dissatisfaction with a product's performance as it deviates from a target value. Thus, both average performa www.dnh.mv.net/ipusers/rm/loss.htm
SAVE International -the international society for the advancement and promotion of the value methodology (also called value engineering, value analysis or value management). value-eng.org
The Industry/University Cooperative Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering Research with Rutgers University, Arizona State University, and University of Arizona. coewww.rutgers.edu/ie/qre