TAGUCHI METHOD OF QUALITY CONTROL
Engineering approach stressing the roles of research and development, product design, and product development to lessen the occurrence of defects and failures in products. In ensuring quality control, design is more significant than the manufacturing process as it endeavors to remove variances in production before this can appear. Japanese Engineer and Statistician Genichi Taguchi started designing the method in the 1950s.
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