Armand V. Feigenbaum

Also known as Armand Vallin Feigenbaum

American businessman

Top works

The Power Of Management Innovation 24 Keys For Sustaining And Accelerating Business Growth And Profitability The Employee Handbook For Enhancing Corporate Performance
Total Quality Control
Total Quality Control 4th edition

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“Product quality can then be defined as: The composite product characteristics of engineering and manufacturing that determine the degree to which the product, in use, will meet the expectations of the customer.”
“Engineers, scientists, and statisticians have, until recently, been the groups chiefly interested in activity called quality control. These technologists have been primarily concerned with the technical methods which have become associated with the subject. They have applied these methods to a number of industrial quality problems.”
“The materials presented in this book have been developed in industry for use in meeting a wide variety of practical industrial problems. They have been used in several factories both as the "plan of attack" for organizing new quality-control programs and as text material for in-service training courses.”
“Quality control may be defined as:”
“In the phrase "quality control" the word quality does not have the popular meaning of "best" in any absolute sense. It means "best for certain customer conditions." These conditions are (a) the actual use and (b) the selling price of the product. Product quality cannot be thought of apart from product cost.”
“In the phrase, "quality control" the word control represents a management tool with four steps:”