QNDE Topical Forum Total Quality Management — TQM
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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The emerging world economy presents challenges to all industrial nations in productivity, product reliability and customer confidence level. The challenges are being met in various nations by reorienting industries for the production and marketing of “world class” products. Such reorientation requires significant cultural changes, significant improvements in management and judicious implementation of new and developing technologies. Reorientation to “world class” production has been implemented in the United States of America by a Department of Defense initiative that is known as “Total Quality Management or TQM”.