Seek for quality engineering information

[Jaco]

Hello everyone,
one of my friends has been asking for me, that if i can help her get the information about the quality engineering. but i have really no idea about it, could some experts here help me out? I will be really appreciated if you can tell me about this philosophy origination and overall instruction about it. that would be great if there is some training stuff available. Thanks in advance.


Jaco

[Marc]

Best I can tell you starting out is to read through the forums and see what people are discussing. You can try a Search for 'quality'. The definition of quality, and what it is, is discussed in many discussion threads here.

As to the History of 'quality', it goeds back to times before the pyramids of Egypt and probably, for all intents and purposes, to early human history. For example, it is probable that early humans recognized the difference between a 'good' spear head they fashioned from stone (and later minerals/ores like flint) from a bad one. They probably had 'opinions' on what was 'good' cave art and what wasn't. So - 'quality' has been around forever in a sense.

You might be interested in reading a current discussion of 'quality' in this thread: A Modest Proposal: Let's Get Rid of "Quality."

Another interesting thread is: What is your definition of Quality?

[JRKH]

Jaco,
I'm not sure I fully understand your question. Are you asking about the "Quality" Field in general? Or are you asking about "Quality Engineering" as in the tools, techniques and methods used to promote and improve process output?

JAmes

[Wes Bucey]

At the very least, you and your friend should be aware of a public resource which tellls what are generally agreed "Bodies of Knowledge" (BOK) for individual specializations within the Quality field by going to the ASQ.org website and following all the pertinent links starting here:
http://www.asq.org/portal/page?_page..._schema=PORTAL
and specifically for the BOK for Quality Engineer here
http://www.asq.org/cert/types/cqe/bok.html

Please feel free to ask any questions for yourself or on behalf of your colleague.

[Jaco]

Dear all,
Thanks for all of your kind response on this, in fact I was not talking about the "quality" and "quality engineer". Actually I could say my friend is not a newbie for the quality, I guess she know quiet a lot tools about quality and the history also,

Maybe JAmes,
You are a little bit right, from what she told to me, the "quality engineering" sounds like a systematic tool to building up a quality system. Do you know about it?

Thanks
Jaco

[Jaco]

I am so disappointed that no body here known about this, I just wanna refresh this thread again before I really give up!

[Marc]

First you ask:

Originally Posted by Jaco

one of my friends has been asking for me, that if i can help her get the information about the quality engineering.

Then you say your friend knows about quality engineering...

Originally Posted by Jaco

...Actually I could say my friend is not a newbie for the quality, I guess she know quiet a lot tools about quality and the history also...

I think we replied to the original question as best we could. And you have changed the question when you said:

Originally Posted by Jaco

...in fact I was not talking about the "quality" and "quality engineer"

I think we're all confused about what your question is. I suspect the language barrier may be too much.

To address the "...philosophy origination and overall instruction about it..." (I assume you mean Quality Asurance) would take a very long time - Which is why I suggest you read up a bit on the basics of quality assurance.

Or invite your friend to ask more specific questions.

[Jaco]

Originally Posted by Marc

First you ask: Then you say your friend knows about quality engineering... I think we replied to the original question as best we could. And you have changed the question when you said: I think we're all confused about what your question is. I suspect the language barrier may be too much.

To address the "...philosophy origination and overall instruction about it..." (I assume you mean Quality Asurance) would take a very long time - Which is why I suggest you read up a bit on the basics of quality assurance.

Or invite your friend to ask more specific questions.

Hi Marc,
I am so sorry for making you and other good people here confused,

you are perfect right, my english is definitely bad. I am really sorry about that!


Back to the question, it is not easy to make every people understand the question at once. Not only my expression, also the question itself! It took me several time explaination to make one of my colleague(we have same mother language) fully understand the question. my colleague also thought I was talking about "Quality Asurance", no doubt, "Quality Asurance" is a big term.

So I will contact with my friend, who is the QA manager at one of GE plant, to confirm what she is seeking for. But from my understanding from what she have said, the term "quality engineering" should be a systematic quality tool(like six sigma). And someone said that "quality engineering " has been developed in a tie one auto supplier(tyre manufacturer, called Michiline??---not sure the exact name).


anyway thanks for all of your help, I will get back to you once I have the further information.

Jaco