Title: Quality Control for Profit Author: Ronal H. Lester ISBN: 0824786580 / 9780824786588 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 583 Publisher: Marcel Dekker Year: 1992 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
Quality Control for Profit covers quality from an international perspective, with examples of outstanding companies as well as a full range of techniques and guidelines-integrating and coordinating all aspects of Quality Management.
This practical volume discusses the latest concepts for utilizing an organization’s full resources in a continuous improvement program...offers expanded process flow charting, statistical techniques, materials control, and vendor audits....explores readily applicable examples of the Taguchi Quality Loss Function...furnishes a new chapter on evaluating and enhancing process capability...provides updated automated data processing, introducing a real time, paperless system....contains an expanded chapter on robotics automation and on-line control, showing modern data collection systems.... details the Just-In-Time philosophy, including single minute exchange of dies, total productive maintenance, kanbans, and cellular manufacturing....analyzes such award programs as the Deming Prize and Malcolm Baldrige Award...and more.
About The Series
Preface to The Third Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to The First Edition
Part I : The Basic Program for Quality Control Chapter 1 : The Competitive Advantage of Product Quality Chapter 2 : Organization for Total Quality and Continuous Improvement Chapter 3 : A Total Quality System Chapter 4 : Specification Review Chapter 5 : Process Flow Charts Chapter 6 : Process Descriptions Chapter 7 : Process Specifications Chapter 8 : Quality Plans Chapter 9 : Products and Process Quality Audits Chapter 10 : Quality Histories Chapter 11 : Feedback for Production Improvement : Basic Procedures Chapter 12 : Feedback for Production Improvement : Additional Techniques
Part II : Further Controls and Procedures Chapter 13 : Materials Controls and Vendor Audits Chapter 14 : Station Control Chapter 15 : Control of Tools, Gages, and Instruments Chapter 16 : Assuring Proper Inspection and Conformance to Standards
Part III : Cost/Profit Emphasis of The Program Chapter 17 : Cost Reductions Through Quality Chapter 18 : Quality and Cost-Conscious Introduction of New Products and Processes Chapter 19 : Experiments Dealing with Cost Reduction, Quality Improvement, and Productivity Chapter 20 : Quality Achievement Documentation Chapter 21 : Proposal for Quality Cost Reduction Program : A Case History Chapter 22 : Optimization and Stimulation Chapter 23 : Cost-Effective Corporate Quality Policy Chapter 24 : Taguchi Methods
Part IV : Supplemental Techniques Chapter 25 : Evaluating and Enhancing Process Capability Chapter 26 : Automated Data Processing Chapter 27 : Principal Statistical Methods in Quality Management Chapter 28 : Reliability Assurance Chapter 29 : Financial and Administrative Applications of Statistical Quality Control Chapter 30 : Achieving Quality in The Service Industries Chapter 31 : Just In Time : A Continuous Improvement Program Chapter 32 : Quality Award Programs : A Spur to Improvement Chapter 33 : Robotics, Automation, and On-Line Control
Epilogue : Quality Control in The Twenty-First Century
Appendix 1 : Table of Factors for Quality Control Applications
Appendix 2 : Areas Under The Normal Curve - Detailed Table
Appendix 3 : Table of Ramdom Numbers
Glossary
Bibliography
Index