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We explore the intersection of two research areas: quality and production system design. Conventional wisdom holds that a product's quality is affected much more by its design than its production. Nevertheless, we argue that the production system used to manufacture a product does indeed affect its quality. We briefly review the limited literature on the intersection of quality and production system design and suggest several new research issues that are important to industry.
Inman et al. (Wed,) studied this question.