Asq Quality Press: 15 books
The ASQ Quality Improvement Pocket Guide
Basic History, Concepts, Tools, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Basic quality at a size and price that are easy on your pocket!This pocket guide is designed to be a quick, on-the-job reference for anyone interested in making their workplace more effective and efficient. It will provide a solid initial overview of what “quality” is and how it could impact you...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This handbook is a comprehensive reference source designed to help professionals address organizational issues from the application of the basic principles of management to the development of strategies needed to deal with the technological and societal concerns of the new millennium. The content of...
by ASQ Quality Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The Old Seven.""The First Seven.""The Basic Seven."Quality pros have many names for these seven basic tools of quality, first emphasized by Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of “quality circles.”Start your quality journey by mastering these...
TQM
Introduction to and Overview of Total Quality Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Total quality management (TQM) is a term initially coined by the Naval Air Systems Command to describe its management approach to quality improvement. It has since taken on many meanings. Simply put, TQM is a management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction. It is based on the participation...
by ASQ Quality Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1976, the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) saw the need for tools to promote innovation, communicate information and successfully plan major projects. A team researched and developed the seven new quality control tools, often called the seven management and planning (MP) tools, or...
by ASQ Quality Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can you collect the data you need, and what should you do with them once theyre collected?Included in this straightforward, how-to book is a description, when to use, procedure, and example for the following tools that can be used to collect or analyze data:Box and Whisker Plot: A tool used...
by T.M. Kubiak, Donald W. Benbow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This second edition has been updated and revised to reflect the most recent Six Sigma techniques, and to match 2007 version of the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Body of Knowledge (BOK).While the primary audience for this work is the individual preparing to sit for the Six Sigma Black Belt certification...
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Description, When to Use, Procedure, Example, and Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a step-by-step approach for identifying all possible failures in a design, a manufacturing or assembly process, or a final product or service. “Failure modes” means the ways, or modes, in which something might fail. Failures are any errors or defects,...
by Nancy R. Tague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Quality Toolbox is a comprehensive reference to a variety of methods and techniques: those most commonly used for quality improvement, many less commonly used, and some created by the author and not available elsewhere. The reader will find the widely used seven basic quality control tools (for example,...
Measuring Quality Improvement in Healthcare
A Guide to Statistical Process Control Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This ground-breaking book addresses the critical, growing need among healthcare administrators and practitioners to measure the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts. Written by respected healthcare quality professionals, Measuring Quality Improvement in Healthcare covers practical applications...
Office Kaizen
Transforming Office Operations into a Strategic Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many business functions have been significantly improved through the use of a variety of quality techniques, but for the most part office and administrative functions have not kept pace. Most companies find it difficult to reduce costs in the office without noticeable sacrifices in performance. Some...
Improving Healthcare with Control Charts
Basic and Advanced SPC Methods and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Do you feel you are drowning in a sea of data and wondering how you can learn from all of this information?While measuring quality efforts in healthcare is essential to the overall performance of any healthcare organization, it is also very complex, leaving many feeling overwhelmed and with a lot...
ISO 9001:2008 Internal Audits Made Easy
Tools, Techniques, and Step-By-Step Guidelines for Successful Internal Audits, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Implementing the requirements of ISO 9001 can be a daunting task for many organizations. In an attempt to develop a system that will pass the registration audit, we are tempted to establish processes with the primary purpose of conforming to the requirements of ISO 9001. In doing so, however, it is easy...
Root Cause Analysis, Second Edition
Simplified Tools and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This updated and expanded edition discusses many different tools for root cause analysis and presents them in an easy-to-follow structure: a general description of the tool, its purpose and typical applications, the procedure when using it, an example of its use, a checklist to help you make sure it...
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