Manufacturing conformity assessment through Taguchi's quality loss function

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 931-946

  Perona, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assessment; Costs; Manufacturing; Taguchi methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010909947     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656719810199024     Document Type: Article

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