Statistical Process Control Spc

Statistical Process Control

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a tool that measures and achieves quality control, providing managers from a wide range of industries with the ability to take appropriate actions for business success. Offering a complete instructional guide to SPC for professional quality managers and students alike, all the latest tools, techniques and philosophies behind process management and improvement are supported by the author’s extensive consulting work with thousands of organisations worldwide. Fully updated to include real-life case studies, new research based on actual client work from an array of industries, a new chapter on process capability, and integration with the latest computer methods and Minitab software, the book also retains its valued textbook quality through clear learning objectives and end of chapter discussion questions. It will serve as a textbook for both student and practicing engineers, scientists, technologists and managers and for anyone wishing to understand or implement modern statistical process control techniques.

Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Statistical Process Control in Industry

One of the central elements of total quality management is statistical process control (SPC). This book describes the pitfalls and traps which businesses encounter when implementing and assuring SPC. Illustrations are given from practical experience in various companies. The Dutch authors, two from academia and one from industry, discuss an activity plan for achieving statistically controlled processes, statistical tools, and consolidation and improvement of the results. An extensive checklist helps determine to what extent a business has succeeded. Originally published as Statistische Procesbeheersing in Bedriif in 1996 by Kluwer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR