Total quality engineering, failure analysis and stochastic process evaluation of engineering project alternatives

The interaction of technical ergonomic and product liability concepts within total quality engineering and management frameworks are evaluated. Risk management and insurance industry paradigms are examined as affecting value engineering and decision-making under uncertainty analysis. Joel Barker´s Future Edge success paradigms are extended to risk analysis and ergonomics to achieve total quality and robustness. Examination of stochastic evaluation of engineered structures for life-cycle costing used with consideration of project alternatives is emphasized, and is an extension of work done by the authors in the area of legal liability and technical insurance as related to engineering structures. Also considered are factors for safety and risk and project alternatives. Results show that for a complete assessment of project alternatives, concurrent interdisciplinary engineering methods are required