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Excerpt from Quality Assurance Systems, and Us Management in the 1980s: The Experiences of Eleven High Technology Companies
There are many reasons for the current downturn in domestic and international demand for American products; one of them front and center is their low quality, as judged by purchasers. US integrated circuits have been shown to fail between three and twenty-six times as often as those produced in Japan. (robinson, 1980) Studies have shown that 64 percent of American-made cars, as compared to 35 percent of Japanese-made cars, suffer mechanical problems within the first six months of ownership. (main, 1980) It is Japanese products that have gained a wide reputation for high standards of reliability and quality of workmanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
