Probing the Limits: Design Engineering: <i>A Goldmine for Quality Improvement</i>
Moving the focus from manufacturing to engineering opens the doors for improvement.
If your quality system is focused more on manufacturing than engineering, you are probably missing opportunities for improvement.
Most quality departments are closely aligned with manufacturing but have poor ties to engineering—exactly opposite of what it should be. This misdeployment of quality resources causes organizations to miss opportunities for quality improvement.