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.

Features
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.

Contents

• Inspection and Testing for Quality Control
• Installing Lot-by-Lot Inspection
• Basis of Sampling Plans
• Process Inspection and Control Charts
• Control of Variability
• Statistical Basis of Control Charts
• Further Control Charts
• Process Capability and Product Tolerances
• Vendor-Vendee Relations
• Organizational Aspects
• Installing Quality Control
• Analysis of Variance
• Optimizing Processing Through Evolutionary Operation
• Statistical Build-up of Tolerances
• Multiple Tolerance Chains
• Reliability Assurance
• Reliability Design
• Process Improvement
• Appendices
• Index