Book Reviews : Applying TQM to Product Design and Development, Authored by Marvin A. Moss; Published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY ©1995 440 pages ISBN 0-8247-9677-2

This book offers simple, yet effective, guidelines on how to practice robust design in the context of a total quality development effort. In these pages, the fundamental metrics of quality engineering are fully developed, and the rationale behind them is explained. Designing low-cost solutions as a requirement, the book discusses the impact of robust design on the cost of a design, as well as how cost and quality can be co-optimized using Dr. Taguchi’s Quality Loss Function. The fundamental statistical tools