International Organization for Standardization, responsible for the ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO 27000, ISO 22000 and other international management standards.
Information about the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Criteria for earning the award. The history of the award and information on past awardees.
The Industry/University Cooperative Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering Research with Rutgers University, Arizona State University, and University of Arizona.
A portal site with Quality-related acronyms, a glossary, lists, links, educational programs, topical briefs, vendor lists and business links. Site also has Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) forms that can filled and saved online.
SAVE International -the international society for the advancement and promotion of the value methodology (also called value engineering, value analysis or value management).
Online course in Statistical Process Control (SPC). Includes a free primer in statistics, variation, process capability, control charts for variables and control charts for attributes.
Taguchi's Loss Function is a method of measuring quality central to Taguchi's approach to design. It establishes a financial measure of the user dissatisfaction with a product's performance as it deviates from a target value. Thus, both average performance and variation are critical measures of quality.
