Directions: prepare article summaries from the following topics listed below. These articles should be taken from recent periodicals, not handbooks or textbooks. Each summary shall be one (1) page in length. Each summary must come from a separate periodical of a different titled publication. The articles you choose to review must have relevance to principles of quality control and reflect current trends in the quality movement. SEE ex ON LAST PAGE.

1. just-in-time production technology
2. quality circles, teams, or work groups
3. supplier quality and certification programs
4. process capability studies and applications
5. quality in design
6. integrating quality control into manufacturing
7. KANBAN
8. statistical process control charts and applications
9. integrating quality control into the service industry
10. budget control of quality
11. quality service
12. total quality management
13. quality function deployment
14. process control studies
15. employee empowerment and management
16. Six Sigma Quality
17. Benchmarking Processes
18. Supply Chain Management
19. Five S's (5 Ss')
20. material requirements planning
21. cost of quality
22. product life-cycle management

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TECH XXXX
Course Title-Section
Name

Vehicular Systems


McCosh, Dan. (1986). No-springs, no-shocks. Popular science. 444 (6), 60-63.

The author believes active suspension will replace springs and shocks with a computer and high-speed hydraulics. The primary benefit of the system is to isolate one suspension characteristic from another. Essentially, MacPherson struts are replaced with hydraulic struts which can react within 3/1000 second, and can cycle up to 1500 times/minute. A computer responds to tiny changes in body and wheel movement by controlling double-acting struts. As well as sensing bumps, the system reads the forces acting on the car body preventing it from banking to the outside of a curve. The idea of active suspension is credited to Britain's great interest in its application. American auto manufacturers have characterized the system as expensive, noisy, and consuming power, however, it may appear on some "expensive" U.S. automobiles.


Reaction

This article had good appeal for automobile enthusiasts who want to keep abreast of the latest technology. The reporting of this innovative suspension system was very consistent and well documented through interviews. Several pictures of the system components were shown as well as a pictorial schematic of the complete suspension system. Upon reading this article, anyone would have a good working knowledge of the computer controlled suspension.