The concept of process monitoring and improvement applies to any type of industry: automotive, textiles, food, pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, electronics, aerospace, banking, educational institutions, service providers, and so on. The focus of this book is to identify and apply different process monitoring and improvement tools in any organization.
This book is aimed at engineers, scientists, analysts, technicians, managers, supervisors, and all other professionals responsible to measure and improve the quality of their processes. Many times, these professionals do not have a formal education on the use of these tools but learn about them throughout the different improvement projects in which they are involved in their work environment. This book is intended to fill the gap between the lack of formal education in the tools and the need to implement those tools in an improvement project. The book can also be used as a refresher course for those professionals who did learn about these tools as part of their educational background.
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Preface
Chapter 1 : Importance of Process Monitoring and Improvement
Chapter 2 : Different Approaches for Process Monitoring and When to Use Them
Chapter 3 : Process Variation
Chapter 4 : Basic Principles of Statistics
Chapter 5 : Graphical Tools
Chapter 6 : Measurement Systems Analysis
Chapter 7 : Process Capability
Chapter 8 : Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 9 : Regression Analysis
Chapter 10 : Design of Experiments
Chapter 11 : Control Charts
Chapter 12 : Afterword
Appendix A : Variable and Attribute Data Applications
Appendix B : Applications for Various Graphical and Statistical Tools
Appendix C : Most Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests
Index
