Quality, Reliability, and Process Improvement, Eight Edition

Thoroughly revised and updated, this widely acclaimed reference/text is both an ideal teaching source and a succinct working manual for organizing effective quality-reliability programs in any industrial plant. Its purpose is to achieve practicality within a framework of prevailing technology.

Provides cost-effective statistical methods and procedures. Includes sampling plans, control charts, and special information on tolerance build-up, randomization, and process improvement through planned experimentation. Includes review questions, problems, and minicases.

Chapter 1 : Inspection and Testing for Quality Control
Chapter 2 : Installing Lot-by-Lot Inspection
Chapter 3 : Basis of Sampling Plans
Chapter 4 : Process Inspection and Control Charts
Chapter 5 : Control of Variability
Chapter 6 : Statistical Basis of Control Charts
Chapter 7 : Further Control Charts
Chapter 8 : Process Capability and Product Tolerances
Chapter 9 : Vendor-Vendee Relations
Chapter 10 : Organizational Aspects
Chapter 11 : Installing Quality Control
Chapter 12 : Analysis of Variance
Chapter 13 : Optimizing Processing Through Evolutionary Operation
Chapter 14 : Statistical Build-up of Tolerances
Chapter 15 : Multiple Tolerance Chains
Chapter 16 : Reliability Assurance
Chapter 17 : Reliability Design
Chapter 18 : Process Improvement

Appendices
Index