Strategies for variability reduction

Quality Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-136

  MacKay, R Jock ^a   Steiner, Stefan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous improvement; Quality improvement; Variation reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012320997     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982119708919115     Document Type: Article

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