Expand your understanding of quality & reliability engineering

Case studies:

• Smart Solenoid tolerance stack
• A "cost saving" fallacy

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Papers and documents:

• Design for Process Capable Tolerances, Engineering Designer, January/February 2010.PDF format / 2.5mb
• Assess the cost of quality, Engineering Designer, September/October 2010.PDF format / 123kb
• Save Money By Understanding Variance and Tolerancing, Paper in the Journal of Medical Device Technology by Team Consulting.
• Process Capable Tolerancing, Publication in Machine Design.

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Books and papers for further background on the methodology embedded in Tolcap:

• 'Effecting a quality change: an engineering approach', S W. Field & K G Swift. London: Arnold; New York : Wiley, 1996.
• 'Process Selection – from design to manufacture', 2nd Edition K G Swift & J D Booker, Butterworth Heinemann, London, 2003
• 'Designing Capable and Reliable Products', J D Booker, M Raines & K G Swift, Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann, London, 2001
• 'Conformability Analysis in Support of Design for Quality', Batchelor, R. & Swift, K. G. Proc. Instn. Mech. Eng., Part B, 210, 37-47,1996