If you want to learn to achieve and maintain a high level of quality in your design work, Design Assurance for Engineers and Managers will show you how.
Written in a clear, easy-to-read narrative style, this immensely valuable guide tells you how to focus on doing the right job, and on how to get yourself-or others-to do it correctly.
The first work to comprehensively compile and organize the various design concepts and methods specifically for achieving quality in design, Design Assurance for Engineers and Managers brings you-in a convenient, one-volume format-all the guiding principles and preferred practices you need to successfully implement your own program of design excellence. This superb, one-of-a-kind reference provides you with a road map for starting, improving, and sustaining design control procedures.....methods that can be implemented directly or tailored to particular individual needs......an integration of analyses and testing, enabling you to prove the validity of your design....numerous sketches tables, and flow diagrams to facilitate understanding......and much, much more.Ideal for novice and veteran mechanical, design, project, quality control, and electrical and electronics engineers-and perfect for managers as a source of checks and balances that won't inhibit creativity-Design Assurance for Engineers and Managers fills a long-standing gap in the leterature and will remain your number one guide to this vital area for many years to come.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Design Assurance
Chapter 2 : Design Requirements
Chapter 3 : Drawing Control
Chapter 4 : Specification Control
Chapter 5 : Configuration Control
Chapter 6 : Design Methods and Analysis
Chapter 7 : Control of Engineering Software
Chapter 8 : Product Testing
Chapter 9 : Design Reviews
Chapter 10 : Statistical Tools for Design Assurance
Chapter 11 : Control of Nonconformances
Chapter 12 : Engineering Records
Chapter 13 : Supporting Documentation
Chapter 14 : Reliability Improvement
Chapter 15 : Auditing The Engineering Process
Chapter 16 : Design Assurance in The Future
Appendixes
Appendix A : Equipment Specification Contents
Appendix B : Sample Design Review Checklist
Appendix C : Guidelines for Auditing The Engineering Function
Selected Readings
Index
