Publisher's Synopsis
This special issue of "Quality and Reliability Engineering International" focuses on the ideas advocated in recent times by Genichi Taguchi. In Taguchi's philosophy, the causal, functional and random components that coexist within engineering are accredited and the techniques for understanding and controlling them are explicated.;Accepting that a universal and continuing objective within industry is to improve quality and reliability, this book examines the fusion of modern methods in engineering design and manufacturing, with the statistical design of experiments.
