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Integrating QbD into Your PDP

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Cindi Wilson of Total Flow Limited highlights the benefits and challenges of implementing and sustaining Quality by Design (QbD). Her solution is a visual flow embedded into your Product Development Process (PDP).

Quality & QbD

Quality by Design (QbD) is an industry keyword these days – spoken equally with reverence and frustration by those trying to understand how to implement it. QbD is a system of tools that assures quality is built into the design throughout the process, rather than inspecting it in, testing it in, or bearing costly changes to get it right after the fact. Read More

What Needs to be Done in UK Housing?

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Whichever way we look at home energy consumption the numbers are scary and construction (world wide) is reacting slower than it needs to.

Taking the UK as a ‘below average’ performer there is some simple maths to emphasise the task:

  • 26million existing homes (99.9% leaking heat and wasting energy)
  • A shortage of 2million homes
  • Current build rate of <100thousand per year.
  • Maximum ever U.K. build rate of 400k in 1948
  • Design life of 200 years (optimistic).
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