Quality losses result mainly from product failure after sale; product “robustness” is more a function of product design than of online control, however stringent, of manufacturing processes.

—Genichi Taguchi

Many design engineers would not know what to do with the results from a Taguchi statistical analysis and need help to interpret the data.

—Jiju Anthony

What This Short Cut Covers

The software industry stands on the brink of an era of dramatic change. We expect the industry to continue the restructuring process already begun, emerging as a much smaller number of horizontally structured firms mostly doing business with each other. As software becomes highly “componentized,” the industry will begin to resemble the automotive industry, with many ...

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