... for process analysis (including understanding process variation), and root‐cause analysis. The next two chapters very briefly deal successively with process improvement (including flexibility and cycle time reduction, mistake proofing, the seven management and planning tools), and process control (role...

..., 1942). Thus, in this study, the ISE will be taken as the quality characteristic to be observed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Process control Taguchi methods Optimization techniques Since the late 1950s Dr Genichi Taguchi introduced several new statistical tools...

... to process control, i.e. from the after‐production stage to the on‐line stage. The current belief about quality is that it is a “virtue of design”, i.e. the robustness of products is more a function of good design than of on‐line control. To produce robust products which reflect customers’ needs...