I have some questions to answer for my Quality Management Course's discussion boards this week and could use your help. The questions are:
1. Is it always more effective to provide backups for all components than to provide a parallel system? Explain.
2. What are some ways to stimulate creativity within and organization?
3. List the seven management tools and discuss how they might be used in developing a new product.
4. Discuss what is meant by the term robust.
5. Find an example of a product that has redundancy built in. Do all of the components in the product have backups? If not, how do you think the components to have backups were selected?
6. Find an example of a service that has redundancy built in. Could you calculate the reliability of a service in the same way as is done for products? What adaptations might need to be made to the analysis methods in order to calculate the reliability of a service?