Economic control of quality of manufactured product
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Looking at the initial comments, I think people need to read up on statistical quality control before commenting with strong language about the value of inspection. Some references. Shewart, Walter. Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product (1931) Deming, W Edwards. Out of the Crisis (1982) Taguchi, Genichi. Taguchi’s Quality Engineering Handbook (2005)\ Essentially, inspection is too late in the process to affect the overall quality.…
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