Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Scientific Learning....Pages 3-12
Industrial Statistics and Innovation....Pages 13-21
Understanding QS-9000 With Its Preventive and Statistical Focus....Pages 23-33
A Conceptual Framework for Variation Reduction....Pages 35-44
The Role of Academic Statisticians in Quality Improvement Strategies of Small and Medium Sized Companies....Pages 45-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Developing Optimal Regulation and Monitoring Strategies to Control a Continuous Petrochemical Process....Pages 61-77
Capability Indices When Tolerances Are Asymmetric....Pages 79-95
Robustness of On-line Control Procedures....Pages 97-108
An Application of Filtering to Statistical Process Control....Pages 109-120
Statistical Process Control and Its Applications in Korean Industries....Pages 121-133
Multivariate Statistical Process Control of a Mineral Processing Industry....Pages 135-149
Developing Objective Strategies for Monitoring Multi Input/Single Output Chemical Process....Pages 151-162
Properties of the C pm Index for Seemingly Unstable Production Processes....Pages 163-172
Process Capability Indices for Contaminated Bivariate Normal Populations....Pages 173-186
Quality Improvements by Likelihood Ratio Methods for Surveillance....Pages 187-193
Properties of the Taguchi Capability Index for Markov Dependent Quality Characteristics....Pages 195-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Fast Model Search for Designed Experiments with Complex Aliasing....Pages 207-220
Optimal 12 Run Designs....Pages 221-235
Robustness of D-optimal Experimental Designs for Mixture Studies....Pages 237-247
A Bivariate Plot Useful in Selecting a Robust Design....Pages 249-262
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Process Optimization Through Designed Experiments: Two Case Studies....Pages 263-274
Technological Aspects of TQM....Pages 275-287
On Robust Design for Multiple Quality Characteristics....Pages 289-297
Simultaneous Optimization of Multiple Responses Using a Weighted Desirability Function....Pages 299-311
Evaluating Statistical Methods Practiced in Two Important Areas of Quality Improvement....Pages 313-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Applications of Generalized Linear Models in Reliability Studies for Composite Materials....Pages 327-337
Bivariate Failure Rates in Discrete Time....Pages 339-350
A General Approach of Studying Random Environmental Models....Pages 351-362
Testing for Change Points Expressed in Terms of the Mean Residual Life Function....Pages 363-369
Empirical Bayes Procedures For Testing The Quality and Reliability With Respect To Mean Life....Pages 371-379
On a Test of Independence in a Multivariate Exponential Distribution....Pages 381-389
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Random Walk Approximation of Confidence Intervals....Pages 393-404
A Study of Quality Costs in a Multi Component and Low Volume Products Automated Manufacturing System....Pages 405-413
Estimating Dose Response Curves....Pages 415-422
On the Quality of Preterm Infants Formula and the Longitudinal Change in Mineral Contents in Human Milk....Pages 423-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-442