Earlier engineering was done by few people. But now with ever increasing knowledge base with the public, there is need to tap that source. But this tapping of knowledge base of the public cannot be done in technical terms. There is need to express knowledge in non technical terms by use of logical reasoning, modeling of ideas, etc. Seeing these non technical details on website, some people can even put their responses, or ask for clarification of some points. Now if designers see this information they can answer those queries. Modern engineering is not limited to the handful designers alone, country has a large knowledge base in public, but a company cannot hire all people, so there needs to place a mechanism by which designers can come in contact with the people, understand and incorporate their feedback and answer their queries.Quality control tools (like flowchart, Cause-effect or fishbone diagrams, force field analysis, interrelations digraph, affinity diagram, and variability matrix) have been quite popular as they explain the engineering processes in a non technical way, yet they analyze the underlying process thoroughly.With the advent of modern computers, a new paradigm has been opened in terms of Social Network analysis, which connects people in a faster manner and lead to quicker information flow. In this project we propose to use the above mentioned Quality Control tools with Social Network modeling concepts to bring every bit of information available with the people at lower working level in a systematic and structured manner in the front of senior decision making level.
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