Quality Control & Reliability

This book explains how to combine two widely known statistical methods—statistical design and statistical control—in a manner that can help any business, government, or research organization solve problems quickly, with sustained results. Because the problem-solving strategy employed is based on pur..

Contamination problems have become a major factor in the manufacture, quality, and reliability of electronic assemblies, and understanding the mechanics and chemistry of contamination is necessary for improving quality and reliability and reducing costs. This practical guide presents a generalized o..

Defect Prevention..

When accidents happen, it is common to blame the end-users, the pilots, the drivers, the controllers, those who are at the front line of the operation. But accident investigators often admit that there were flaws in the design of the ICT system, engineered device, or business procedure. This book pr..

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is a data-driven quality strategy for designing products and services. The goal of DFSS is to avoid process problems using systems engineering techniques. DFSS consists of five interconnected phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify. This book provides a detailed ..

Industry recognizes the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Therefore, it is extremely important for designers and engineers to have a solid grounding in reliability engineering and keep abreast of developments and research ..

DOE Simplified..

Based on original research conducted by the author over the past twenty years, this book is a definitive investigation of enduring change. Hundreds of therapists and change agents, in addition to a diverse group of people who have self-initiated experiences, or structured therapy, have been intervie..

Discusses the requirements for establishing, maintaining and revitalizing an efficient engineering documentation control system for use by technical and manufacturing personnel in private industry. The book stresses simplicity and common sense in the development and implementation of all control pra..

Today, engineering systems are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of engineering systems around the globe. Many of these systems are highly sophisticated and contain millions of parts. For..

This volume provides the textile science community with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in the discipline of textile engineering. Reporting on recent advances with significant applications in textile engineering, the chapters are written by internationally recognized rese..

This book describes the application of GIS technology to industrial facilities, focusing on information from an organizational/corporate standpoint. It addresses o Intelligent drawings as the basis for representing information o Structured evolution from today's systems to an environmental managemen..