Application of Quality Assurance to Engineering Management.

摘要

The need for quality in the products that our industries produce has long been recognized and accepted. In recent years it has also been recognized that the concern for quality must also be applied to the raw materials going into the products and to the processes used to produce them. Only very recently has it been recognized that the same concern for quality must be applied during the engineering processes that precede the manufacturing phase of the product cycle. For this idea to be understood and accepted by the engineering community, it will be necessary to apply these same concepts of quality to the engineering-management function. This paper describes a systems-analysis-based approach of quality assurance that provides a simple, straightforward process for determining which outputs from the various management tasks are significant. It also relates what can and should be tracked and evaluated and who is responsible. The process has four aspects: system description, planning, execution, and evaluation. 2 refs., 4 figs.