As the son of the legendary quality thinker Genichi Taguchi, Shin Taguchi certainly has the pedigree of a quality guru. But he’s also done the hard work to earn the honor: As a consultant and president of ASI Consulting Group, he’s one of the quality industry’s most sought-after professionals. His client list is a roster of industry heavy-hitters: General Motors Corp., Hyundai Motor Co., Ford Motor Co., Kodak, Texas Instruments Inc. and Lexmark International Inc.
Over the years, he’s trained more than 25,000 engineers worldwide in quality engineering, product and process optimization, and his father’s renowned Taguchi methods. Taguchi is a disciple of robust engineering, the practice of designing products to avoid future quality problems. He believes that the quality goal of companies should be to solve quality problems before they’re created. “Firefighting” quality flaws through post-production inspection is useless.
Shin Taguchi is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in London, and is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Mr. Taguchi is a member of the Quality Control Research Group of the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) and Quality Engineering Forum in Japan.
He is an editor of the Quality Engineering Forum Technical Journal and was awarded the Craig Award for the best technical paper presented at the annual conference of the ASQ.
Shin Taguchi has been featured in the media through a number of national and international forums, including Fortune Magazine and Actionline (a publication of AIAG). He has given presentations and workshops at numerous conferences, including ASQ, ASME, SME, SAE, and IIE.
Shin Taguchi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Statistics from the University of Michigan and trains and consults with many major corporations worldwide.
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