Essentials of Quality with Cases and Experiential Exercises

by

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

This text book will be published by Wiley in early 2010. In addition to the text, there will be an Instructor's Manual, a test bank, and PowerPoint presentations. An outline of the text is shown below. Questions about the text may be sent to sowerv@shsu.edu.

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