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Volume 1, Issue 5
1 May 1989
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Total Quality Management
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Review Article| May 01 1989

Quality engineering

E.J. Henshall
E.J. Henshall
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1360-0613
Print ISSN: 0954-4127
© MCB UP Limited
1989
Total Quality Management (1989) 1 (5)
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb059486

Ford of Europe has as its mission ‘to continually improve our products and services to meet our customer needs’. The company is adopting Taguchi's philosophy of Loss Function analysis and the Quality Function Deployment planning tool to support its Total Quality culture.

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