Bücher der Reihe Quality and Reliability

Demonstrates how to design in quality for successful development of hardware and software products. This book offers systematic applications tailored to particular market environments. It also discusses Internet issues, electronic commerce, and supply chain.

This book focuses on practical proven programs that have enabled companies to gain a worldwide competitive edge. The blending of total quality control with total employee involvement and just-in-time manufacturing concepts provides the means for gaining the competitive edge.

This book provides an introduction to statistical process control in automated manufacturing and suggests implementation strategies. It focuses on time series applications in statistical process control and explores the role of knowledge-based systems in process control.

This book deals with the fundamentals of specification writing and management. It is useful for anyone concerned with the preparation of standards in a world that is shrinking due to improvement in communication and where many specifications have to hold clarity when translated into other languages.

." . .should have a place on the bookshelf of every industrial statistician and quality practitioner. . .a valuable resource to those who must teach, preach, and demonstrate the applications of quality control and improvement in the service industries, activities that surely will increase in importance and frequency in the days to come." ---Technometrics

Offers practical guidance for the quality auditing of a chemical or biological testing laboratory - helping to develop or improve quality control and quality assurance programs in order to meet certification standards or pass external-source audits.

This book deals with the fundamentals of specification writing and management. It is useful for anyone concerned with the preparation of standards in a world that is shrinking due to improvement in communication and where many specifications have to hold clarity when translated into other languages.