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chapter twenty-one
Using Six Sigma to evaluate radio
frequency technologies at NASA
You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there.
—W. Edwards Deming
21.1 Introduction
This case study is based on the research conducted at NASA between 2005 and 2006 and
was funded by the Nebraska EPSCOR Grant. It describes how design for Six Sigma was
utilized to conduct testing to determine the feasibility of using radio frequency identica-
tion (RFID) technologies for the International Space Station ...