Books in the Quality and Reliability series

Discusses how the Total Quality Management (TQM) of the production and manufacturing environment can be modified, implemented, and measured within the engineering project environment. This title aims to integrate predominant quality philosophy with organization research.

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.

Offering a model, an implementing strategy, as well as traditional and nontraditional methods for the successful enhancement and maintenance of quality, this work establishes a rationale for the continuation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in all organizations. It considers leading quality-related topics, such as unusual charts, supplier-organization-customer relationships, customer needs and expectations, instructional design, adult learning, advanced quality planning, and reliability.

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.

Explains how software reliability can be applied to software programs of various sizes, functions and languages, and businesses. This work provides real-life examples from industries such as defence engineering, and finance. It is suitable for software and quality assurance engineers and graduate students.

New concepts for gaging, inspection, checking, machine vision, and robotic testing. Includes guidelines for installing complex electronic and computerized systems and a directory of commercially availalbe computer software, as well as distributors' names and addresses. Annotation copyright Book News

." . .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

Reflects the changes to the ASQ Body of Knowledge for the Certified Quality Engineer (CQE). This book covers various topics required by the quality engineer for day-to-day practices in planning, testing, finance, and management and examines and defines the principles and benefits of Six Sigma management and organization.

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.

This book deals with the "hard skills" involved in achieving leadership quality. It provides a vehicle to foster interaction of the elements of the modern approach to quality, including statistical applications, quality and reliability engineering, management, and motivational aspects.

Examines the evolution and rationale of the ISO 9000 series of standards, their structure, interpretation and relationship to other quality systems. This title explains how to put the standards into place and achieve quality. It presents specific methods and tools for the implementation of the ISO standards that lead to certification.

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.

Utilizing advanced concepts, guidelines and requirements from the ISO 9000 and 10000 series of standards, as well as other models, including TQM (Total Quality Managment), this text offers procedures for developing a quality manual, to be used by personnel performing quality-related functions and for external auditors and customers.

This book provides a vehicle to foster interaction of the elements of the modern approach to quality, including statistical applications, quality and reliability engineering, management, and motivational aspects. It is intended for those in manufacturing, engineering, marketing, and management.

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.

Quality Function Deployment is an information system producing structured data for quality managers and practitioners. This work helps to implement such a system for readers assumed to be familiar with it.

Aiming to change the paradigms of traditional management strategies, this work attempts to create an improved platform within the total quality management umbrella for supporting the profit motive by offering instructions for applying the theory of constraints in the manufacturing system.

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.