• DocumentCode
    1606615
  • Title

    Do we need total quality management in fusion engineering? — Experience from construction of W7-X

  • Author

    Vilbrandt, Reinhard ; Bosch, Hans-Stephan ; Feist, Jost-Henrich

  • Author_Institution
    Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Phys., EURATOM Assoc., Greifswald, Germany
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The performance of all quality management (QM) and assurance (QA) activities in the project W7-X is a very complex task. If we understand QM as a request for continuous reflection on present tasks and on the best way to improve the processes with respect to the scientific and technical aims, it is a useful management tool. We can learn from industry but we have to adapt the system to our own requirements which differ and are more complex.
  • Keywords
    fusion reactor theory; plasma toroidal confinement; quality assurance; stellarators; W7-X construction; fusion engineering; management tool; project W7-X; quality assurance activities; quality management activities; total quality management; Assembly; Documentation; Industries; Quality assurance; Standards; project management; quality; system engineering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0169-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635405
  • Filename
    6635405