Quality Improvement

✍ Scribed by Besterfield, Dale H

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Quality Control, Statistical Process Control, Quality Improvement, and Quality Assurance. This book will be valuable in programs such as Quality Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, Quality Control, and Statistical Process Control; in Associate Degree in Quality and other technical programs; in Baccalaureate programs in Engineering, Technology, Health Care, Education, and Business; and in Masters Degree programs in business. Formerly titled Quality Control, the field's most accessible introduction to quality has been renamed and revamped to focus on quantitative aspects of quality improvement. New chapters on Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma, Experimental Design, and Taguchi's Quality Engineering have been added, and this new Ninth Edition adds comprehensive coverage of fundamental statistical quality improvement concepts.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Introduction to Quality Improvement......Page 6
2. Lean Enterprise......Page 10
3. Six Sigma......Page 16
4. Fundamentals of Statistics......Page 24
5. Statistical Process Control (SPC)......Page 56
6. Control Charts for Variables......Page 67
7. Additional SPC Techniques for Variables......Page 104
8. Fundamentals of Probability......Page 121
9. Control Charts for Attributes......Page 134
10. Acceptance Sampling......Page 160
11. Reliability......Page 180
12. Management and Planning Tools......Page 197
13. Experimental Design......Page 209
14. Taguchi's Quality Engineering......Page 228
15. Selected Bibliography......Page 254
F......Page 256
S......Page 257
W......Page 258