Quality Control for Profit

Quality Control for Profit

Publisher: Marcel Dekker
ISBN: 9780824786588
Author: Ronal H. Lester
Dispatch Time: 2 - 3 Days
Format: Hard Cover
Number of Pages: 583
Year of Published: 1992
Our Price: £140.00

Quality Control for Profit covers quality from an international perspective, with examples of outstanding companies as well as a full range of techniques and guidelines-integrating and coordinating all aspects of Quality Management.
This practical volume discusses the latest concepts for utilizing an organization’s full resources in a continuous improvement program...offers expanded process flow charting, statistical techniques, materials control, and vendor audits....explores readily applicable examples of the Taguchi Quality Loss Function...furnishes a new chapter on evaluating and enhancing process capability...provides updated automated data processing, introducing a real time, paperless system....contains an expanded chapter on robotics automation and on-line control, showing modern data collection systems.... details the Just-In-Time philosophy, including single minute exchange of dies, total productive maintenance, kanbans, and cellular manufacturing....analyzes such award programs as the Deming Prize and Malcolm Baldrige Award...and more.

About The Series
Preface to The Third Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to The First Edition

Part I : The Basic Program for Quality Control
Chapter 1 : The Competitive Advantage of Product Quality
Chapter 2 : Organization for Total Quality and Continuous Improvement
Chapter 3 : A Total Quality System
Chapter 4 : Specification Review
Chapter 5 : Process Flow Charts
Chapter 6 : Process Descriptions
Chapter 7 : Process Specifications
Chapter 8 : Quality Plans
Chapter 9 : Products and Process Quality Audits
Chapter 10 : Quality Histories
Chapter 11 : Feedback for Production Improvement : Basic Procedures
Chapter 12 : Feedback for Production Improvement : Additional Techniques

Part II : Further Controls and Procedures
Chapter 13 : Materials Controls and Vendor Audits
Chapter 14 : Station Control
Chapter 15 : Control of Tools, Gages, and Instruments
Chapter 16 : Assuring Proper Inspection and Conformance to Standards

Part III : Cost/Profit Emphasis of The Program
Chapter 17 : Cost Reductions Through Quality
Chapter 18 : Quality and Cost-Conscious Introduction of New Products and Processes
Chapter 19 : Experiments Dealing with Cost Reduction, Quality Improvement, and Productivity
Chapter 20 : Quality Achievement Documentation
Chapter 21 : Proposal for Quality Cost Reduction Program : A Case History
Chapter 22 : Optimization and Stimulation
Chapter 23 : Cost-Effective Corporate Quality Policy
Chapter 24 : Taguchi Methods

Part IV : Supplemental Techniques
Chapter 25 : Evaluating and Enhancing Process Capability
Chapter 26 : Automated Data Processing
Chapter 27 : Principal Statistical Methods in Quality Management
Chapter 28 : Reliability Assurance
Chapter 29 : Financial and Administrative Applications of Statistical Quality Control
Chapter 30 : Achieving Quality in The Service Industries
Chapter 31 : Just In Time : A Continuous Improvement Program
Chapter 32 : Quality Award Programs : A Spur to Improvement
Chapter 33 : Robotics, Automation, and On-Line Control

Epilogue : Quality Control in The Twenty-First Century
Appendix 1 : Table of Factors for Quality Control Applications
Appendix 2 : Areas Under The Normal Curve - Detailed Table
Appendix 3 : Table of Ramdom Numbers
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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