Quality Engineering lays emphasis on ‘Building-in’ Quality, rather than weeding out Non-conformance. The foundation of this practice is that the Design function has the largest leverage on the Quality of the product. And more the customer’s variation is accommodated at the Design stage, better is the possibility of building a Robust product for the customer.
Quality Engineering emphasises accommodation of customers’ variation and controlling the manufacturing process variation offering robustness at hands of the customer.
Quality Engineering enables designers to achieve this objective through a basket of analytical/statistical tools and techniques.