Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control

Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control

Authors: Donald J. Wheeler, Ph.D
Language: English
Publisher: SPC Press, 2nd Edition 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0945320630

This book is the most comprehensive source book on Statistical Process Control since Shewhart's original! It is the definitive book, containing a wealth of information found nowhere else. Unlike books which only add layers of complication onto the subject, this book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the underlying theory of process behavior charts.

Topics include:

• The Quality of Limits for Process Behavior Charts
• The Autocorrelated Data and Process Behavior Charts
• Degrees of Freedom for Process Behavior Charts
• Process Behavior Charts and Chaos Theory
• Cusum and EWMA Techniques
• The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
• PreControl and Zone Charts
• The Analysis of Means
• How to Set Manufacturing Specifications
• Using Small Amounts of Data for Limits
• The Shewhart Catechism
• Some Differences between Theory and Practive

484 pages. Hardback. 234 Figures, 51 Reference Tables, 134 Examples and Illustrations.