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Project Quality Management

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This chapter regards project Quality management: designing with customers (value-based), designing with suppliers, the design for manufacturability and assembly, reducing internal variety, and using simultaneous and reverse engineering.

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Tonchia, S. (2018). Project Quality Management. In: Industrial Project Management. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56328-1_9

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