Quality assurance systems in Israeli industries Part 2: Economic issues,information and decision-making

This paper defines the potential contribution of quality assurance activities in the context of companies' economic needs, which were derived through managers' opinions regarding possible ways for increasing the operating profit of their companies. From it emerges a desired expansion of the traditional quality tasks towards an integrative economically oriented system. This idealized approach, providing an economic link between the quality of design and the quality of conformance is illustrated by many Japanese industries. The data was based on the sample of Israeli electric and electronic industries described in Part 1.