The Road to Quality Control: The Industrial Application of Statistical Quality Control by Homer M. Sarasohn

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Fisher; Yutaka Tanaka; W.H. Woodall

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Professor Woodall's essay shows that this book represents a remarkable contribution, even by today's standards, because of its contemporary thinking about the relationship between the specific topic of SQC and the broader company context of Quality Management. It also demonstrates the remarkable awareness of at least some young US engineers in the post-war period about the vital role of Statistical Quality Control in establishing and maintaining a competitive position. The book reveals that there was unsuspected knowledge extant immediately post-war, about the importance of Statistical Quality Control when appropriately applied in an industrial setting. It also helps to correct wide-spread historical misconceptions about who specifically was responsible for helping Japanese industry get back on its feet post-war, a task assigned to General Douglas Macarthur by President Truman and how Macarthur was indebted to Sarasohn.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 2
Contents – Summary......Page 6
Translators' Preface......Page 7
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Step 1. Establishing the Quality Standard......Page 13
Step 2. Establishing a Section to Evaluate Quality......Page 15
Step 3. Establishing Inspection Standards......Page 16
Step 4. Selection of Inspection Methods......Page 17
Step 5. Investigation of the Current State of Quality......Page 18
Technical Terms Used in Quality Control......Page 21
II Probability and Statistical Inference......Page 26
Measures of Central Tendency......Page 30
Measure of Variability......Page 32
III Sampling Inspection......Page 51
Specifying an Acceptable Proportion of Defective Items......Page 62
IV Application of Sampling Inspection......Page 72
V Quality Control of the Production Process......Page 83
AppendixStatistical Tables for Sampling Inspection......Page 101
Quality Management......Page 104
Use of Acceptance Sampling......Page 106
Theory vs. Practice......Page 107
Conclusions......Page 108
References......Page 109
1 Introduction......Page 111
3 1945–1947......Page 112
4 1948–1950......Page 118
5 Conclusions......Page 134
6 Key Sources of Information......Page 136
References......Page 137
Appendix: Notes on the Text......Page 139
End User License Agreement......Page 144