Statistical Process Control for Quality Improvement: A Training Guide to Learning Spc

✍ Scribed by James Evans

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With today's growing emphasis on quality improvement, training individuals in fundamental quality control skills is a major challenge. Professionals in manufacturing industries need to bring processes into statistical control - and maintain them. This book is designed to help readers learn the statistical tools and concepts needed to develop and use quality control effectively.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
PART I: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts of Statistical Process Control
1-1. Quality Improvement—The Key to the Future
1-2. Introduction to Statistical Process Control
1-3. Measurement and Statistics
1-4. Plotting Points on Graphs
Chapter 2: Measures of Location and Variability
2-1. Simple Measures of Location
2-2. Range and Standard Deviation
PART II: CONTROL CHARTS
Chapter 3: Control Charts
3-1. Introduction to Variables Control Charts
3-2. Constructing Variables Control Charts
3-3. Using Control Charts for Continued Production
3-4. Identifying Control Chart Patterns
3-5. Interpreting Control Chart Patterns
3-6. Control Charts for Attributes
3-7. Design Issues for Control Charts
Chapter 4: Additional Types of Control Charts
4-1. X-bar and s-Charts
4-2. Charts for Individuals
4-3. Charts for Defects
PART III: PROCESS CAPABILITY ANALYSIS
Chapter 5: Frequency Distributions and Histograms
5-1. Simple Frequency Distributions
5-2. Histograms
5-3. Computing Measures of Location and the Standard Deviation for Frequency Distributions
5-4. Grouped Frequency Distributions
5-5. Computing Statistical Measures for Grouped Frequency Distributions
5-6. Applications of Histograms
Chapter 6: Process Capability
6-1. The Concept of Process Capability
6-2. Process Capability Index
PART IV: ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOR SPC
Chapter 7: Implementing SPC and Other Tools for Quality Improvement
7-1. Implementing Statistical Process Control
7-2. Pareto Analysis
7-3. Cause and Effect Diagrams
7-4. Scatter Diagrams
APPENDIXES
Appendix A: Basic Math Skills
A-1. Math Skills Analysis
A-2. Mathematics Review: Fractions
A-3. Mathematics Review: Decimal Numbers
A-4. Mathematics Review: Basic Operations With Decimals
Appendix B: Answers to Review and End of Chapter Quizzes
Appendix C: Control Chart Factors
Bibliography
Index
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