Download or read book Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement written by Thomas P. Ryan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the Second Edition "As a comprehensive statistics reference book for quality improvement, it certainly is one of the best books available." —Technometrics This new edition continues to provide the most current, proven statistical methods for quality control and quality improvement The use of quantitative methods offers numerous benefits in the fields of industry and business, both through identifying existing trouble spots and alerting management and technical personnel to potential problems. Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement, Third Edition guides readers through a broad range of tools and techniques that make it possible to quickly identify and resolve both current and potential trouble spots within almost any manufacturing or nonmanufacturing process. The book provides detailed coverage of the application of control charts, while also exploring critical topics such as regression, design of experiments, and Taguchi methods. In this new edition, the author continues to explain how to combine the many statistical methods explored in the book in order to optimize quality control and improvement. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest research and practices in statistical methods and quality control, and new features include: Updated coverage of control charts, with newly added tools The latest research on the monitoring of linear profiles and other types of profiles Sections on generalized likelihood ratio charts and the effects of parameter estimation on the properties of CUSUM and EWMA procedures New discussions on design of experiments that include conditional effects and fraction of design space plots New material on Lean Six Sigma and Six Sigma programs and training Incorporating the latest software applications, the author has added coverage on how to use Minitab software to obtain probability limits for attribute charts. new exercises have been added throughout the book, allowing readers to put the latest statistical methods into practice. Updated references are also provided, shedding light on the current literature and providing resources for further study of the topic. Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement, Third Edition is an excellent book for courses on quality control and design of experiments at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. the book also serves as a valuable reference for practicing statisticians, engineers, and physical scientists interested in statistical quality improvement.

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement written by Hitoshi Kume and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 1987-08-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is highly recommended for managers and serious students of quality. Major US companies issue this reference and training manual to all managers during their quality training. This volume is also very valuable as a stand-alone reference on using statistics with a business and quality perspective.

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Quality Assurance written by Stephen B. Vardeman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This undergraduate statistical quality assurance textbook clearly shows with real projects, cases and data sets how statistical quality control tools are used in practice. Among the topics covered is a practical evaluation of measurement effectiveness for both continuous and discrete data. Gauge Reproducibility and Repeatability methodology (including confidence intervals for Repeatability, Reproducibility and the Gauge Capability Ratio) is thoroughly developed. Process capability indices and corresponding confidence intervals are also explained. In addition to process monitoring techniques, experimental design and analysis for process improvement are carefully presented. Factorial and Fractional Factorial arrangements of treatments and Response Surface methods are covered. Integrated throughout the book are rich sets of examples and problems that help readers gain a better understanding of where and how to apply statistical quality control tools. These large and realistic problem sets in combination with the streamlined approach of the text and extensive supporting material facilitate reader understanding. Second Edition Improvements Extensive coverage of measurement quality evaluation (in addition to ANOVA Gauge R&R methodologies) New end-of-section exercises and revised-end-of-chapter exercises Two full sets of slides, one with audio to assist student preparation outside-of-class and another appropriate for professors’ lectures Substantial supporting material Supporting Material Seven R programs that support variables and attributes control chart construction and analyses, Gauge R&R methods, analyses of Fractional Factorial studies, Propagation of Error analyses and Response Surface analyses Documentation for the R programs Excel data files associated with the end-of-chapter problem sets, most from real engineering settings

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Healthcare Performance Monitoring written by Alex Bottle and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare is important to everyone, yet large variations in its quality have been well documented both between and within many countries. With demand and expenditure rising, it’s more crucial than ever to know how well the healthcare system and all its components – from staff member to regional network – are performing. This requires data, which inevitably differ in form and quality. It also requires statistical methods, the output of which needs to be presented so that it can be understood by whoever needs it to make decisions. Statistical Methods for Healthcare Performance Monitoring covers measuring quality, types of data, risk adjustment, defining good and bad performance, statistical monitoring, presenting the results to different audiences and evaluating the monitoring system itself. Using examples from around the world, it brings all the issues and perspectives together in a largely non-technical way for clinicians, managers and methodologists. Statistical Methods for Healthcare Performance Monitoring is aimed at statisticians and researchers who need to know how to measure and compare performance, health service regulators, health service managers with responsibilities for monitoring performance, and quality improvement scientists, including those involved in clinical audits.

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement written by Thomas P. Ryan and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2000-02-14 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special features of Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement, Second Edition include: greatly expanded chapters on process capability indices and multivariate control chart methods; improved attributes control charts based on the author's research; a detailed presentation of Six Sigma programs; a new, separate chapter on CUSUM and EWMA procedures; new material on robust design and Taguchi-type procedures; chapter appendices for more in-depth coverage of selected topics; and very extensive and up-to-date references in each chapter, in addition to a bibliography of papers on a variety of control chart applications."--Jacket.

Download or read book Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods written by Bovas Abraham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the papers presented at the International Conference 'Quality Improvement through Statistical Methods' in Cochin, India during December 28-31, 1996. The Conference was hosted by the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India; and sponsored by the Institute for Improvement in Quality and Productivity (IIQP) at the University of Waterloo, Canada, the Statistics in Industry Committee of the International Statistical Institute (lSI) and by the Indian Statistical Institute. There has been an increased interest in Quality Improvement (QI) activities in many organizations during the last several years since the airing of the NBC television program, "If Japan can ... why can't we?" Implementation of QI meth ods requires statistical thinking and the utilization of statistical tools, thus there has been a renewed interest in statistical methods applicable to industry and technology. This revitalized enthusiasm has created worldwide discussions on Industrial Statistics Research and QI ideas at several international conferences in recent years. The purpose of this conference was to provide a forum for presenting and ex changing ideas in Statistical Methods and for enhancing the transference of such technologies to quality improvement efforts in various sectors. It also provided an opportunity for interaction between industrial practitioners and academia. It was intended that the exchange of experiences and ideas would foster new international collaborations in research and other technology transfers.

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic Statistical Tools for Improving Quality written by Chang W. Kang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introductory book on improving the quality of a process or a system, primarily through the technique of statistical process control (SPC). There are numerous technical manuals available for SPC, but this book differs in two ways: (1) the basic tools of SPC are introduced in a no-nonsense, simple, non-math manner, and (2) the methods can be learned and practiced in an uncomplicated fashion using free software (eZ SPC 2.0), which is available to all readers online as a downloadable product. The book explains QC7 Tools, control charts, and statistical analysis including basic design of experiments. Theoretical explanations of the analytical methods are avoided; instead, results are interpreted through the use of the software.

Download or read book Statistical Methods in Engineering and Quality Assurance written by Peter William Meredith John and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting more than 30 years of teaching experience in the field, this guide provides engineers with an introduction to statistics and its applicability to engineering. Examples cover a wide range of engineering applications, including both chemical engineering and semiconductors. Among the topics featured are: quality assurance and statistics, continuous variables, hypothesis testing, comparative experiments, acceptance sampling, the analysis of variance, Taguchi and Orthogonal arrays. Tables, references and an index round out this work.

Download or read book The Desk Reference of Statistical Quality Methods written by Mark L. Crossley and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in alphabetical order for quick reference, this book provides the quality practitioner with a single resource that illustrates, in a practical manner, how to execute specific statistical methods frequently used in the quality sciences. Each method is presented in a stand-alone fashion and includes computational steps, application comments, and a fully illustrated brief presentation on how to use the tool or technique. A plethora of topics have been arranged in alphabetical order, ranging from acceptance sampling control charts to zone format control charts. This reference is accessible for the average quality practitioner who will need a minimal prior understanding of the techniques discussed to benefit from them. Each topic is presented in a standalone fashion with, in most cases, several examples detailing computational steps and application comments. This second edition includes new sections on advanced SPC applications, reliability applications, and Simplex Optimization. There are expansions in the sections on process capability analysis, hypothesis testing, and design of experiments.

Download or read book Introduction to Statistical Quality Control written by Christina M. Mastrangelo and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, this Second Edition continues to explore the modern practice of statistical quality control, providing comprehensive coverage of the subject from basic principles to state-of-the-art concepts and applications. The objective is to give the reader a thorough grounding in the principles of statistical quality control and a basis for applying those principles in a wide variety of both product and nonproduct situations. Divided into four parts, it contains numerous changes, including a more detailed discussion of the basic SPC problem-solving tools and two new case studies, expanded treatment on variable control charts with new examples, a chapter devoted entirely to cumulative-sum control charts and exponentially-weighted, moving-average control charts, and a new section on process improvement with designed experiments.

Download or read book Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control written by Walter A. Shewhart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important text offers lucid explanation of how to regulate variables and maintain control over statistics in order to achieve quality control over manufactured products, crops and data. First inexpensive paperback edition.

Download or read book Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab written by G. Robin Henderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to enable readers to understand and implement, via the widely used statistical software package Minitab (Release 16), statistical methods fundamental to the Six Sigma approach to the continuous improvement of products, processes and services. The second edition includes the following new material: Pareto charts and Cause-and-Effect diagrams Time-weighted control charts cumulative sum (CUSUM) and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) Multivariate control charts Acceptance sampling by attributes and variables (not provided in Release 14) Tests of association using the chi-square distribution Logistic regression Taguchi experimental designs

Download or read book Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quality Management written by Kai Yang and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multivariate statistical methods are an essential component of quality engineering data analysis. This monograph provides a solid background in multivariate statistical fundamentals and details key multivariate statistical methods, including simple multivariate data graphical display and multivariate data stratification. * Graphical multivariate data display * Multivariate regression and path analysis * Multivariate process control charts * Six sigma and multivariate statistical methods

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement written by Hitoshi Kume and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Statistical Methods for SPC and TQM written by D Bissell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-05-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical Methods for SPC and TQM sets out to fill the gap for those in statistical process control (SPC) and total quality management (TQM) who need a practical guide to the logical basis of data presentation, control charting, and capability indices. Statistical theory is introduced in a practical context, usually by way of numerical examples. Several methods familiar to statisticians have been simplified to make them more accessible. Suitable tabulations of these functions are included; in several cases, effective and simple approximations are offered. Contents Data Collection and Graphical Summaries Numerical Data Summaries-Location and Dispersion Probability and Distribution Sampling, Estimation, and Confidence Sample Tests of Hypothesis; "Significance Tests" Control Charts for Process Management and Improvement Control Charts for Average and Variation Control Charts for "Single-Valued" Observations Control Charts for Attributes and Events Control Charts: Problems and Special Cases Cusum Methods Process Capability-Attributes, Events, and Normally Distributed Data Capability; Non-Normal Distributions Evaluating the Precision of a Measurement System (Gauge Capability) Getting More from Control Chart Data SPC in "Non-Product" Applications Appendices

Download or read book Modern Statistical Quality Control and Improvement written by Nicholas R. Farnum and published by Duxbury Resource Center. This book was released on 1994 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farnum's text takes a state-of-the-art approach to quality management. From the outset, it emphasizes the modern philosophy of continuous quality improvement and quality control. It is written for courses where both modern statistical methods for quality and their implementation into business are covered. In straightforward terms, the book explains the concepts and techniques that are essential to quality control, including cutting-edge topics.