Quality Control Applications

✍ Scribed by Dimitris N. Chorafas (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Quality control is a constant priority in electrical, mechanical, aeronautical, and nuclear engineering – as well as in the vast domain of electronics, from home appliances to computers and telecommunications. Quality Control Applications provides guidance and valuable insight into quality control policies; their methods, their implementation, constant observation and associated technical audits.

What has previously been a mostly mathematical topic is translated here for engineers concerned with the practical implementation of quality control. Once the fundamentals of quality control are established, Quality Control Applications goes on to develop this knowledge and explain how to apply it in the most effective way. Techniques are described and supported using relevant, real-life, case studies to provide detail and clarity for those without a mathematical background. Among the many practical examples, two case studies dramatize the importance of quality assurance: A shot-by-shot analysis of the errors made in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; and the engineering failure with new technology due to the absence of quality control in an alternative energy project.

This clear and comprehensive approach makes Quality Control Applications an essential reference for those studying engineering as well industry professionals involved in quality control across product and system design.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Product Assurance....Pages 3-21
Quality Control....Pages 23-40
Designing for Quality....Pages 41-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Service Assurance: A Case Study....Pages 59-80
Man-Made Catastrophes are the Result of Wanting Service Assurance....Pages 81-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Reliability Assurance....Pages 105-123
Reliability and Life Cycle Maintainability....Pages 125-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
A Brief Introduction to Stochastic Thinking....Pages 145-164
Sampling Methods....Pages 165-185
Operating Characteristics Curves....Pages 187-207
Experimental Design and Latin Squares....Pages 209-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Fundamentals of Statistical Quality Inspection....Pages 235-255
Quality Control Charts by Variables....Pages 257-276
Quality Control Charts by Attributes....Pages 277-293
The Culture of Statistical Quality Control....Pages 295-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-332

✦ Subjects

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Industrial Organization; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing