HOW TO ELIMINATE COST OF QUALITY BY DESIGN

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Eliminating the Cost of Quality begins with designing in quality to avoid costly defects, errors, rework, scrap, procurement of replacement materials, factory/machine capacity degradation, re-qualifications/re-certifications costs, and overhead demands to sort out quality problems which rob resources from implementing the overall cost reduction strategy.
 

STRATEGY TO DESIGN IN QUALITY

Methodologies to proactively assure high quality and reliability by design are taught in Dr. Anderson's in-house DFM training seminars and are published in the book, Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering, Copyright 8 2010 by Dr. David M. Anderson. Here are excerpts:

Designing for quality is what gets quality from 5 sigma to 6 sigma.