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Unlike the world of medicine, where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, in the acquisition of state-of-the-art telecommunications hardware and software, an ounce of up-front planning c

Agility has now become important with growing dynamics in business everywhere in order to respond rapidly to the changing needs of their customers while producing good quality software at a faster

No step is more critical for quality in bringing a new product to market than R&D.

Quality By Design -- A Quality Manual for the AT&T R&D Community was developed by the AT&T Bell Laboratories Quality Assurance Center to help R&D managers implement AT&T's quali

At the direction of Ian Ross, acting in his capacity as leader of the AT&T R&D community, the Quality Assurance Center has prepared this manual to help managers interpret and implement the

M A N U F A C T U R E R is interested in producing a controlled product--one in which the deviations about the average level of quality are no larger than can be accounted for as a result of chance

R R E S P E C T I V E of the care taken in defining the production procedure, the manufacturer realizes that he cannot make all units of a given kind of product identical.

In 1980, AT&T Bell Laboratories researchers conducted an experiment with an orthogonal array design of size 18 (OA18) for optimization of an LSI fabrication process.

Recently, AT&T-EUO senior executives formulated network quality definition initiatives, the objective of which was to establish a pro-active program to focus on the multiple strengths of AT&amp

The objective of engineering design, a major part of research and development (R&D), is to produce drawings, specifications, and other relevant information needed to manufacture products that m