4-5 What is New-Design control?
As a definition:
New-design control involves the establishment and specification of the necessary cost-quality, performance-quality, safety-quality, and reliability-quality for the product required for the intended customer satisfaction, including the elimination or location of possible sources of quality troubles before the start of formal production.
techniques used in new-design control include analysis of product function, quality research, environmental and end-use tests, classification of quality characteristics, establishment of quality levels and quality standards, process capability studies, tolerance analysis, quality-ability analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, design review, log of prototype inputs, prototype tests establishment of process parameters, product evaluation, safety studies, manufacturing-process review, establishment of reliability standards, development of maintainability and service-ability standards, and pilot runs. New design control is treated in detail in Chapter 18.