Highlights the need for engineers who design vehicles to work simultaneously with engineers who manufacture these vehicles in order to improve product quality. Discusses the advantages of changing the emphasis of the total engineering process from one which concentrates on problem identification and resolution to one which focuses on meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Identifies behavioural and technical skills which support an engineering process which reflects these two key attributes and a training programme in these skills outlined. Considers the structure of the training programme and emphasizes the complementary nature of the behavioural and the technical skills and their relationships. Includes a case study on the application of engineering quality improvement programme methodologies in the design of experiments.
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Alan Combes;
Alan Combes
Product Development Quality Manager at Ford Motor Company, Boreham, Essex
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Christopher Connolly;
Christopher Connolly
Director at Sporting Bodymind Limited, Hampstead, London. He can be contacted at Sporting Bodymind Limited, 28A Hampstead High Street, London, NW3 1QA. Tel: 0171 794 4066; Fax: 0171 794 6700
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Ed Henshall
Ed Henshall
Ford Education and Training and was a member of the development team of the award winning interactive video disk program on statistical process control. He moved to Statistical Methods Office in Ford of Europe and spent three years involved in the implementation of quality improvement techniques. He then moved back to Education and Training to lead the team which developed the quality improvement intervention which is the subject of this article. Ed is Manager of Global Quality Training Design and Development Programmes co‐ordinator of Global Quality Programmes, Ford Automotive Operations at Ford Motor Compnay, Dearborn, Michigan, MI.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7204
Print ISSN: 1352-3074
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1995
World Class Design to Manufacture (1995) 2 (3): 17–24.
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Combes A, Connolly C, Henshall E (1995), "Engineering quality improvement programme". World Class Design to Manufacture, Vol. 2 No. 3 pp. 17–24, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369310087066
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