Applying total quality management to systems engineering

Author(s)

• Kasser, Joe

Bibliographic Information

Applying total quality management to systems engineering

Joe Kasser

（The Artech House professional development and technology management library）

Artech House, c1995

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Applying TQM to systems engineering can reduce costs while simultaneously improving product quality. This guide to proactive systems engineering shows how to develop and optimize a practical approach, while highlighting the pitfalls and potentials involved.

Table of Contents

• Motivating concepts
• an overview of systems engineering
• methodologies and models in systems engineering
• optimizing the systems engineering process
• mitigating project development risks
• the contractual background to systems engineering
• costs and their relation to quality
• process improvement
• anticipatory testing
• metrics for system engineering
• systems engineering documentation
• the procurement
• proposals
• requirements definition phase
• the preliminary design phase
• the design, build, integrate, and test phases
• the operations and maintenance phases
• ethics in systems engineering
• applying TQM to systems engineering
• ISO 9000 in systems engineering
• epilogue.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA2676147X
• ISBN:
  • 0890067678
• LCCN: 95019295
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 298 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TS155
  • DC20 : 658.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Production management
  • LCSH : Total quality management
  • LCSH : Systems engineering
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2676163X