The qualification process outlined earlier is useful for selecting bidders for built-to-specifications or custom designs in an e-supply marketplace....

There are two guiding principles of quality practices for high-technology supply chains: (1) do not generate any defects within your span of control, and (2) do not pass on any defects to the next lin...

Company/supplier communication process have developed over time to provide human facilitation as much as possible. Suppliers have placed their plants strategically near their customers, and have encou...

The product realization process has undergone several changes with the advent of concurrent engineering. The change from a serial process of product development to a more parallel process has resulted...

Concurrent engineering principles came to the fore as a strategic set of four goals for new product development: high quality, low cost, reduced engineering change orders (ECOs) and time to market, an...

The revolution in the high-technology industries has shrunk design and use product life cycles to a period of weeks and months through concurrent engineering. At the same time, traditional design and ...

For electronic products, most of the defects will be generated in the PCBs, as discussed in Chapter 4. The final product might consist of many other mechanical and electrical parts, including sheet me...

Six sigma quality analyses of new product elements will produce the total expected defects from design and manufacturing. These defects will have to be removed by test systems at various locations in ...