Quality Control category: 855 books

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Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples

A Straightforward Way to Adapt a QMS to Your Own Business

by Carlos Pereira da Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017

Author and experienced quality management consultant Carlos Pereira da Cruz has written this book with one goal in mind: to offer you a practical and straightforward way to adapt your quality management system to your business, while meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2015. Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through...
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by Abdul Razzak Rumane
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

The first edition published in 2010. The response was encouraging and many people appreciated a book that was dedicated to quality management in construction projects. Since it published, ISO 9000: 2008 has been revised and ISO 9000: 2015 has published. The new edition will focus on risk-based thinking...
Cover of The Continual Improvement Process: From Strategy to the Bottom Line
by Craig Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Continual improvement is not optional. It is a condition of survival. Every organization must have systematic methods for making smart decisions, attacking problems, improving its products and services, and repelling competitors. Anything less than a systematic, disciplined approach is leaving your future...
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Card-Based Control Systems for a Lean Work Design

The Fundamentals of Kanban, ConWIP, POLCA, and COBACABANA

by Matthias Thurer, Mark Stevenson, Charles Protzman
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective visual approach for controlling manufacturing and service operations, all too many shops struggle with...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance that is a statistical target of operating with no more that 3.4 defects per one million chances. Six sigma has both created avid interest and raised concerns among executives and its practioners. This is all very well for multinationals...
Cover of ISO 9001 in Plain English
by Craig Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011

Why does ISO 9001 have to be so confusing? It doesnt. Bestselling author Craig Cochran has translated ISO 9001 into plain English that anyone can understand. ISO 9001 in Plain English was written so that anyone at any level of the organization can get to the heart of the standards requirements and how...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013

This book is based on the research papers presented during The Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013 held at Taipei in July 2013. It presents information on the most recent and relevant research, theories and practices in industrial and systems engineering. Key topics include: Engineering...
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Risk Management for Engineering Projects

Procedures, Methods and Tools

by Nolberto Munier
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Covers the entire process of risk management by providing methodologies for determining the sources of engineering project risk, and once threats have been identified, managing them through: identification and assessment (probability, relative importance, variables, risk breakdown structure, etc.);...
Cover of The Fundamentals of Quality Assurance in the Textile Industry
by Stanley Bernard Brahams
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016

The role of quality assurance is to ensure that once a specification has been agreed, every product and every production run meets that standard**.** The Fundamentals of Quality Assurance in the Textile Industry describes how quality professionals in the apparel industry coordinating with overseas...
Cover of Metaheuristic Optimization for the Design of Automatic Control Laws
by Guillaume Sandou
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

The classic approach in Automatic Control relies on the use of simplified models of the systems and reformulations of the specifications. In this framework, the control law can be computed using deterministic algorithms. However, this approach fails when the system is too complex for its model to...
Cover of Strategies and Techniques for Quality and Flexibility
by Miryam Barad
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017

This book presents strategic perspectives on quality and flexibility, as well as quantitative tools for assessing their implementation in a range of systems. It introduces readers to the global changes in the relative importance of quality strategies and flexibility strategies over the past 30 to...
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Quality in the 21st Century

Perspectives from ASQ Feigenbaum Medal Winners

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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016

This book is a compilation of perspectives provided by several winners of the ASQ Feigenbaum Medal, which is awarded each year to an individual under the age of 35 who has made a significant contribution to the field of Quality. As such, it serves as a valuable reference book in this area. It is primarily...
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Zonotopes

From Guaranteed State-estimation to Control

by Vu Tuan Hieu Le, Cristina Stoica, Teodoro Alamo
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

This title focuses on two significant problems in the field of automatic control, in particular state estimation and robust Model Predictive Control under input and state constraints, bounded disturbances and measurement noises. The authors build upon previous results concerning zonotopic set-membership...
Cover of Quality Standards for Highly Effective Government
by Richard Mr Mallory
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

A seminal work for the public sector, Quality Standards for Highly Effective Government (Second Edition) redefines what is expected and what is required for excellence in management. The practices presented here also benefit non-profit organizations, and indeed any organization in which services are...
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