Monday, December 15, 2008

Office Planning and Design Desk Reference or Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement

Office Planning and Design Desk Reference

Author: James E E Rappoport

Covers all aspects of planning, designing and leasing new or retrofitted office space. While the bulk of the material was written for this book, selected chapters have appeared before in other Wiley titles and are now updated to reflect specialized aspects of the subject. Topics include determining a client organization's space and cost requirements, deciding on a suitable building and space, the nitty-gritty of design, retrofitting for office automation, selecting a designer, and signing a contract. It makes generous use of tables, charts, spreadsheets, checklists, and design workgrids. Features a special lease negotiation list for tenants.



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Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement

Author: Amit Mitra



• With examples to demonstrate applications, this book presents foundations of modern quality control and improvements applicable to manufacturing and service industries.

• The aim of the book is to serve as both a valuable text for students interested in and as a reference for any professional responsible for quality control management in a manufacturing or service environment.

• It includes an expanded chapter on quality management practices, tools, and standards.

• There is new material on six sigma, gage repeatability and reproducibility, process capability analysis, control charts for short production runs, and quality costs, among several others; and an additional focus on quality control and improvement in the service sector.


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This book covers the foundations of modern methods of quality control and improvement used in the manufacturing and service industries. It features real world examples in its coverage of topics such as statistical process control, graphical methods of data presentation and quality improvement, acceptance sampling, product and process design, and quality issues in the service sector. This second edition integrates the application of computer software throughout the text as well as updating all the concepts and adding new case studies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.



Table of Contents:

Pt. I Philosophy and Fundamentals 1

1 Introduction to Quality Control and the Total Quality System 3

2 Some Philosophies and Their Impact on Quality 47

3 Quality Management: Practices, Tools, and Standards 93

Pt. II Statistical Foundations and Methods of Quality Improvement 147

4 Fundamentals of Statistical Concepts and Techniques in Quality Control and Improvement 149

5 Data Analyses and Sampling 229

Pt. III Statistical Process Control 263

6 Statistical Process Control Using Control Charts 265

7 Control Charts for Variables 289

8 Control Charts for Attributes 369

9 Process Capability Analysis 415

Pt. IV Acceptance Sampling 465

10 Acceptance Sampling Plans for Attributes and Variables 467

Pt. V Product and Process Design 527

11 Reliability 529

12 Experimental Design and the Taguchi Method 559

Appendixes 665

Index 687

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