Quality Engineering Workshop: Methodologies for Achieving Quality in Integrated Design/Manufacturing Systems

新的质量工程技术，包括稳健的系统/产品/过程设计方法，以及在现代综合工程设计/制造系统中纳入质量考虑因素，正处于快速发展的状态。这些方法采用工程/统计实验设计、损失函数、质量函数部署和有争议的田口参数和公差设计方法的元素。基于现代质量/可靠性理念和技术沟通工具，他们加强了质量工程的作用，除了质量控制外，还包括计划和改进。它们还将概念扩展到包括系统或产品的整个生命周期。工科院校在这些技术的教学和研究方面都落后于工业界，大多数工科本科教育基本上局限于传统的质量控制概念。质量工程工作坊的目标是介绍这些新的质量工程技术，提供其应用的成功例子，通过实验室实验和计算机模拟来说明这些概念，并演示和比较相关的计算机软件。讲习班应帮助教师在他们自己学校的质量工程课程的发展中发挥关键作用，使他们相信将传统的质量控制课程扩展到质量工程的重要性，并为他们提供材料和策略，以便在他们机构的全面质量管理运动中发挥重要作用。

New quality engineering technologies, that include methodologies for robust system/product/process design and the incorporation of quality considerations in the modern integrated engineering design/manufacturing system, are in a rapid state of development. These methodologies employ engineering/statistical experiment design, loss functions, quality function deployment and elements of the controversial Taguchi parameter and tolerance design methods. Based on modern quality/reliability philosophies and technical communication tools, they enhance the role of quality engineering to include planning and improvement, in addition to quality control. They also extend the concept to include the total life cycle of the system or product. Engineering Colleges lag industry in both the teaching and researching of these technologies, and most engineering undergraduate education is essentially limited to the traditional concepts of quality control. The objective of the Quality Engineering Workshop is to present these new quality engineering technologies, to provide successful examples of their application, to illustrate these concepts through laboratory experiments and computer simulations, and to demonstrate and compare associated computer software. The workshop should assist faculty to play key roles in the development of quality engineering courses at their own schools by convincing them of the importance of expanding traditional quality control courses to quality engineering, and providing them with materials and strategies for playing a significant role in the total quality management movement in their institution.