Innovation, quality engineering, and statistics

Quality Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-29

  Box, George E P ^a,b   Woodall, William H ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DFSS; DMAIC; experimental design; innovation engineering; Six Sigma

Indexed keywords

DFSS; DMAIC; ECONOMIC CLIMATES; INNOVATION ENGINEERING; INNOVATION PROCESS; QUALITY ENGINEERING; SIX SIGMA;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84857342374     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982112.2012.627003     Document Type: Review

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