Essentials of Quality with Cases and Experiential Exercises

by

Victor E. Sower, Ph.D., C.Q.E.

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Cover

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Quality

Chapter 2 Strategic Quality Management and Operationalizing Quality

Chapter 3 Designing Quality into Products and Services

Chapter 4 Innovation and Creativity in Quality

Chapter 5 Quality Systems and Quality Auditing

Chapter 6 Product, Process, and Materials Control

Chapter 7 Design of Experiments

Chapter 8 Quality Improvement Tools

Chapter 9 Metrology, Inspection, and Testing

Chapter 10 Statistical Process Control

Chapter 11 Acceptance Sampling

Chapter 12 Quality Costs

Chapter 13 Human Factors in Quality

Bibliography

Appendix A

Appendix B