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Sixth Edition
By
John S Oakland, Executive Chairman, OAKLAND Consulting plc, Leeds, UK
Description
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.
Audience
Text for university & college courses within engineering, manufacturing & management, as well as business schools, for both undergrad & postgraduate, particularly MBAs; Quality managers, Quality engineers & technologists, Manufacturing engineers, Process controllers,
Production engineers, Service managers, Operations researchers, across a wide range of industries & organizations, including the service
sector; Six Sigma candidates
Contents
Part 1: Process Understanding and Management: Quality, Processes and Control; Understanding and managing processes; Process data collection
and presentation. Part 2: Process Variability: Variation and its management; Variables and process variation. Part 3: Process Control:
Process control using variables; Other types of control charts for variables; Process control by attributes; Cumulative sum (cusum) charts.
Part 4: Process Capability: Process capability for variables and its measurement; Process capability for attributes - sampling. Part
5: Process Improvement: Process problem solving and improvement; Managing out-of-control processes; Designing the statistical process
control system; Six-sigma process quality; The implementation of statistical process control. Appendices
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 472 pages, publication date: SEP-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6962-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6962-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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