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Mastering Statistical Process Control - A Handbook for Performance Improvement Using SPC Cases
Tim Stapenhurst
Butterworth-Heinemann
May 2005
Paperback 456 ISBN 0750665297
£25.00
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This book
- Shows how your business, process and profitability can benefit from process management and control
- Indictes that SPC is widely used and widely misunderstood.
- Is the only book to take an applications based approach to SPC
- Is ideal for managers, process engineers and quality personnel in both manufacturing and service sectors,
as well as students of management, statistics, operations research, MBAs and Six Sigma candidates
Mastering Statistical Process Control shows how to understand business or process performance
more clearly and more effectively. This practical book is based on a rich and varied selection of case
studies from across industry and commerce, including material from the manufacturing, extractive and
service sectors. It will enable readers to understand how SPC can be used to maximum effect, and will
deliver more effective monitoring, control and improvement in systems, processes and management.
The common obstacle to successful use of SPC is getting bogged down with control charts, forgetting that
visual representation of data is but a tool and not an end in itself. Mastering SPC demonstrates how
statistical tools are applied and used in reality. This is a book that will open up the power of SPC for many:
managers, quality professionals, engineers and analysts, as well as students, will welcome the clarity and
explanation that it brings to understanding the use and benefit of SPC in a wide range of engineering, production
and service situations.
Key case studies include using SPC to:
- Measure quality and human factors
- Monitor process performance accurately over long periods
- Develop best-practice benchmarks using control charts
- Maximise profitability of fixed assets
- Improve customer service and satisfaction
Readership: Manufacturing engineers, process controllers, production engineers, service managers,
quality managers, operations researchers, across a wide range of industries and organizations from
extraction to processing to manufacturing to finishing, and the service sector. Also a core element of
study at undergraduate and graduate level on courses relating to manufacturing and management,
particularly MBAs.
Contents
- Part 1: Using & interpreting control charts; The old way: how & why moving averages mislead management;
- Part 2: Case Studies: Accounting for human error; Measuring quality & human factors; Measuring
process performance accurately; Application of control charts to benchmarking; Coping with trends;
Two metrics on the same chart; Analysing production data; Celto-Styrocell case study; Training analysis using
SPC; Using charts to maximise usage; Analysis of incidents; Exam results; Teaching how to draw control charts;
Plotting the results of consecutive phases on a single chart; Budget vs actual plotting; Using charts to improve
customer service; Estimating the cost of poor performance; Methods of sampling in complex systems; SPC
in context: SPC, Six Sigma & Quality Management; Part 3: The Basics of SPC; Constructing charts;
Interpreting charts; Examples & exercises
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