The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System

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McGraw Hill Professional, 2001 - Business & Economics - 190 pages
The MAHALANOBIS-TAGUCHI SYSTEM (MTS) is a groundbreaking new philosophy that has been reshaping Japanese industry since its inception. Developed by award-winning quality engineering expert Dr. Genichi Taguchi - acknowledged as one of the most innovative thinkers in the field and based on the work of Indian Statistics giant Dr. P. C. Mahalanobis, the system provides a powerful process for recognizing patterns and forecasting results.

MTS goes beyond theory - it shows you exactly how international business giants have successfully put the system to work for them. The book includes 15 fascinating case studies that provide an inside look at how organizations such as Fuji, Nissan, Sharp, Xerox and others have utilized the system effectively. MTS can be applied in patient monitoring, medical diagnosis, software, manufacturing, weather forecasting, automotive collision prevention system, and fire detection.

Doctors, researchers, engineers, insurance experts, financial analysts, programmers, and anyone else with an interest in pattern recognition and forecasting will find this book to a blueprint to improved decision-making.

"Japan's Taguchi is America's new quality hero."
--Fortune Magazine November 23, 1998

"Subir Chowdhury: Voices of quality for the 21st Century."
--Quality Progress (January 2000) American Society for Quality

"There is no question that the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System is a profoundly important giant step in improving the productivity of evaluating and improving diagnostic and other systems based on pattern recognition. Potential application of this method abound in many industries."
--John King, Ford Motor Company

JAPAN'S POWERFUL, NEW PATTERN-RECOGNITIONMETHODIS NOW AVAILABLE TO AMERICAN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

And here is the FIRST book on the subject

Learn how you can harness the power of an amazing new pattern-recognition and forecasting method from Dr. Genichi Taguchi, a world-renowned quality genius. 15 case studies from around the U.S. and Japan show how industry giants used the MTS effectively in their organizations. With this important and authoritative book, you can achieve the same success.

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... Solutions that Received Complaints A 1.1 B 2.2 C 2.8 Store Mahalanobis Distance Traditional Assessment Absolutely normal solution . Possibly due ... SOLUTION 119 Mahalanobis Distance of Rejected Solutions and Their Photographic Quality.
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... solutions , the ones that were judged as normal by traditional assessments had small Mahalanobis Distances . The solutions that were judged as defective by traditional assessment had large Mahalanobis Distances . These facts indicate a ...
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... Solution ( equilibrium ) FIGURE 11-4 Mahalanobis Distance changes of old and new solutions during running tests After discussion , we decided to construct a new base space by putting the fresh solutions together with the solutions that ...

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER TWO A DETAILED EXAMPLE OF MTS
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CHAPTER THREE BUSINESSPROCESS
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About the author (2001)

GENICHI TAGUCHI, D.Sc., is Executive Director of the American Supplier Institute, an international organization that trains and consults on quality management and engineering. Winner of the Deming Prize of Japan and the Shewhart Medal of the American Society for Quality, Dr. Taguchi developed the statistical and logical systems for rapid improvements in product quality and product development that have revolutionized automobile and other industries in America and in his home country of Japan. He is also co-author of McGraw-Hill's Robust Engineering. SUBIR CHOWDHURY is Executive Vice President of the American Supplier Institute. A recipient of the Society of Automotive Engineers' prestigious Henry Ford II Award for Excellence, he is the lead author of the international best-selling business book - Management 21C and co-author of Robust Engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1999). YUIN WU is Executive Director of the American Supplier Institute and conducted the first Taguchi Methodsâ experiments in the U.S. while working in private industry in California. He also provides consultation and training on Robust Engineering and MTS. He is co-author of Taguchi Methodsâ for Robust Designâ.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Mahalanobis-Taguchi System
AuthorsGenichi Taguchi, Genʼichi Taguchi, Subir Chowdhury, Yuin Wu
Editionillustrated
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2001
ISBN0071362630, 9780071362634
Length190 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Business & Economics / Quality Control
Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
Social Science / Statistics
Technology & Engineering / Industrial Design / General
Technology & Engineering / Industrial Engineering
Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing
Technology & Engineering / Quality Control
  
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