The Internet has been in place for over 20 years. The immediate access to all company quality and reliability standards, with extended access to the initial effort began when the U.S.A. governmental operations decided to connect a number of their Internet. Such access could include the IEC in Switzerland, the ASQC in the U.S.A. the Consor-computers. Expansion followed with Academia. Research facilities shared mostly text and data. The tium of European Quality Organizations, and NASA.
In addition, most of the semiconductor manufac-next major factor to expand the Internet was Apple's Macintosh and Microsoft's Windows establishment turers have world-wide reliability and quality results for specific products manufactured in plants around of GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) which eased the exchange of pictures, plots, and drawings using the world available for download and printing, when needed. the Internet. The 90s have brought the World Wide Web (WWW) into play, which is the web of infor-A great opportunity is now here for quality and reliability engineering technologists to enhance tech-mation accessible on the Internet (Internet refers to the hardware; namely, computers, cables, and niques and procedures by using or establishing an Intranet quality and/or reliability site in their organi-connections). The mid 90s have introduced the term Intranet (internal private business network) to the zation. For example, the site could contain quarterly quality and reliability engineering newsletters, qual-desktop and the home office.
The company Intranets that have evolved are ity or reliability topical tutorials, recommended publications and WWW sites, links to internal quality generally part of business process improvement activities to improve communications. They provide and reliability standards, quality and reliability educational offerings, in-process quality measurements employees with easy access to company internal information such as product specifications, detailed and goals, and product reliability performance. Visit us at http:/ /www.wiley.com on the World Wide drawings, test results, and in-process manufacturing data. Even though Intranets are internal business Web. information access systems, they can provide links to the World Wide Web.