Genichi Taguchi Is a Major Japanese Contributor to Quality Management

question 105

Multiple Choice

Genichi Taguchi is a major Japanese contributor to quality management. Which of the following perspectives or tools did Taguchi bring to QM?

• A) He viewed any lack of quality as a loss to society.
• B) Taguchi developed a "loss function" to measure the costs of quality losses that decision makers could use to guide their QM efforts.
• C) Taguchi applied experimental design to quality assessment.
• D) Each answer is a perspective or tool from Taguchi.

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