Last Update : 11/10/2001

Index of Contents

	Purpose of Founding and History
	Outline of Activities
	The Statutes
	Contents of QES Bulletin
	Guidance for Membership Application (Individual Membership, Supporting Membership)

1. Outline of Quality Engineering

	Proposal of Quality Engineering
	Procedure for Parameter Design and Its Methodology and Explanation

2. Q&A about Quality Engineering

	How can we produce high-quality products faster at lower costs?
	How can Quality Engineering be effective ?
	What is Parameter Design ?
	Why must functionality be evaluated?
	Why are dynamic characteristics used in evaluating functionality?

3. Prospects of Off-line Quality Engineering

	Strengthening of Business Capacity and Technological Capacity
	Zeroing of Customer Complaints
	Further Reduction of Manufacturing Costs
	Boosting of Product Development Capacity
	Classification of Quality
	Classification of Quality
	From Product Development to Technology Development
	Technology Development
	Economic Evaluation of Dispersion
	Three Major Factors of Variation and Countermeasures
	Classification of Characteristic Values and the SN Ratios
	Dynamic characteristics and the SN Ratios
	Concept of Parameter Design
	Methodology of Parameter Design
	QE Steps (Application Points)