Quality Control category: 855 books
Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards
Interdisciplinary Challenges and Integrated Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
This volume investigates the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting challenges in the risk analysis of natural hazards. It brings together leading minds in engineering, science, philosophy, law, and the social sciences. Parts I and II of this volume explore risk assessment, first by providing an overview...
The Momentum Effect
How to Ignite Exceptional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
A few rare companies have discovered the secret to sustained high growth: momentum. They’ve learned how to create the conditions that lead to exceptional organic growth—which feeds on itself, continually accelerating the business forward. In The Momentum Effect, J.C. Larreche introduces a complete...
Global Macrotrends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management
Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Global supply chain decision-makers and practitioners are about to face brutally tough new challenges. They will be called upon to manage supply and demand in a world marked by demographic and economic shifts that will turn their supply and demand markets upside down. They will have to secure crucial...
The Lean 3P Advantage
A Practitioner's Guide to the Production Preparation Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? Lean 3P is how.
Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award !
Written from an operations perspective, The Lean 3P Advantage:...
Making Sustainability Stick
The Blueprint for Successful Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This book provides the blueprint for implementation, breaking down barriers, and the steps required to integrate sustainability successfully into any business. It is laid out in easily digestible chapters, with action steps backed up from interviews with sustainability thought leaders, case studies,...
by Issa Bass
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Here is a chapter from Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and MINITAB . This is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide for understanding and using Excel and MINITAB programs for Six Sigma statistical data analysis. Each chapter includes relevant theory and technique, step-by-step exercises, case studies, graphical illustrations and screen shots for performing the techniques in both Excel and MINITAB.
Social Entrepreneurship
New Models of Sustainable Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
'Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas...
Supply Chain Strategies
Demand Driven and Customer Focused
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Supply Chain Strategies demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage their supply chains to sustain competitiveness in the global economy.
Whereas many textbooks on supply chain management focus on purchasing and operations, this new edition of Tony Hines'...
by James Lewis, David Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
How do you measure the success of your company? Are you measuring things that are important to you and the stockholders, or are you measuring things that will truly lead to improvement? If your measurements are not easily interpolated at the process owner level, they are probably the wrong measurements....
Fuzzy Hierarchical Model for Risk Assessment
Principles, Concepts, and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Risk management is often complicated by situational uncertainties and the subjective preferences of decision makers. Fuzzy Hierarchical Model for Risk Assessment introduces a fuzzy-based hierarchical approach to solve risk management problems considering both qualitative and quantitative criteria...
Design for Six Sigma
Design Optimization: Taguchi's Robust Parameter Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Here is a chapter from an updated Design for Six Sigma, Second Edition, which has extensive new chapters and learning modules on innovation, lean product development, computer simulation, and critical parameter management--plus new thread-through case studies. This updated edition provides unrivalled...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The world is witnessing a rapid growth in wind and other renewable based electricity generation due to environmental concerns associated with electricity generation from the conventional sources. Wind power behaves quite differently than conventional electric power generating units due to its intermittent...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Replacement Models with Minimal Repair is a collection of works by several well-known specialists on the subject of minimal repair in replacement policies. It gives an exhaustive list of minimal repair models for the effective planning of minimal repair and maintenance actions.
Written in an...
Preparing for ISO Certification Audit – A Plain English Guide
A step-by-step handbook for ISO practitioners in small businesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
“Before you decide if your company should go for the certification, you have to ask yourself one important question: Do you really need it?” This book is a complete guide that will not only help you decide on this crucial concern, but also lead you from the beginning of the certification project...