See also:

• Business: Business Services: Quality Control and Tracking  (368)
• Business: International Business and Trade: International Organization for Standardization - ISO  (46)
• Science: Math: Operations Research  (228)
• Science: Reference: Standards  (330)
• Science: Technology: Materials: Testing  (156)

ASQ Quality Central: - American Society for Quality, the primary trade organization for quality improvement.

Design Of Experiments, Quality Control And Taguchi Methods: - A brief, college-level introduction to the Design of Experiments.

Experimental Design and Optimization: - Application Notes on Experimental Design and Optimizatio.

FMEA Information Centre: - An internet directory dedicated to Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.

iSixSigma Quality and Management Resources: - Includes articles, tools and resources for implementing Six Sigma quality, total quality management, ISO9000, and process improvements programs.

ISO International Organization for Standardization: - International Organization for Standardization, responsible for the ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO 27000, ISO 22000 and other international management standards.

Lloyds Register Quality Assurance: - ISO registrar site includes articles and links to quality-related organizations.

NIST National Quality Program -- Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award: - Information about the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Criteria for earning the award. The history of the award and information on past awardees.

QA Six Sigma Partners Resources: - Articles on six sigma, design of experiments and other quality engineering topics.




Quality and Reliability Engineering Center: - The Industry/University Cooperative Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering Research with Rutgers University, Arizona State University, and University of Arizona.

Quality Digest Magazine: - Quality Digest Magazine, a major trade publication.

The Quality Portal: - A portal site with Quality-related acronyms, a glossary, lists, links, educational programs, topical briefs, vendor lists and business links. Site also has Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) forms that can filled and saved online.

QuEST: - A forum for cooperation and communication between telecommunication service providers and suppliers.

SAVE International- Value Engineering: - SAVE International -the international society for the advancement and promotion of the value methodology (also called value engineering, value analysis or value management).

Smarter Solutions: - Articles meant to assist practitioners apply methods of Six Sigma statistical methods of Quality Engineering.

Standards Council of Canada: - Federal Crown corporation with the mandate to promote efficient and effective standardization.

Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Online Course: - Online course in Statistical Process Control (SPC). Includes a free primer in statistics, variation, process capability, control charts for variables and control charts for attributes.

Taguchi's Loss Function: - Taguchi's Loss Function is a method of measuring quality central to Taguchi's approach to design. It establishes a financial measure of the user dissatisfaction with a product's performance as it deviates from a target value. Thus, both average performance and variation are critical measures of quality.




Tantara: - Access to books about software process improvement, software quality assurance, software engineering, et. al.