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Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement

This document provides an overview of quality control and total quality management. It discusses key concepts such as quality, quality control, quality assurance, quality costs, statistical process control, acceptance sampling, and various quality philosophies. The total quality system aims to meet customer needs and improve customer satisfaction through prevention and continuous improvement. Quality costs include prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs. Statistical process control uses control charts to monitor processes and identify sources of variation. Acceptance sampling provides a means to inspect lots using sampling instead of 100% inspection. Different philosophies such as those of Deming, Crosby, and Juran contributed to the development of total quality management.

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Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement

This document provides an overview of quality control and total quality management. It discusses key concepts such as quality, quality control, quality assurance, quality costs, statistical process control, acceptance sampling, and various quality philosophies. The total quality system aims to meet customer needs and improve customer satisfaction through prevention and continuous improvement. Quality costs include prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs. Statistical process control uses control charts to monitor processes and identify sources of variation. Acceptance sampling provides a means to inspect lots using sampling instead of 100% inspection. Different philosophies such as those of Deming, Crosby, and Juran contributed to the development of total quality management.

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Third Edition

Amitava

Mitra

PREFACE
PART 1 PHILOSOPHYAND FUNDAMENTALS

1 Introductionto Quality Control and the Total Quality System


1-1 Introductionand Chapter Objectives, 3
1-2 Evolutionof Quality Control, 4
1-3 Quality, 7
Quality Characteristics, 8
Variablesand Attributes, 8
Defects, 9
Standard or Specification, 9
Quality of Design, 9
Quality of Conformance, 10
Quality of Performance, 11
1-4 Quality Control, 11
Off-Line Quality Control, 12
Statistical Process Control, 12
Acceptance Sampling Plans, 12
1-5 Quality Assurance, 13
1-6 Quality Circ1esand Quality Improvement Teams, 14
1-7 Customer Needs and Market Share, 15
Kano Model, 15
1-8 Benefits of Quality Control and the Total Quality System, 16
Total Quality System, 17
1-9 Quality and Reliability, 17
1-10 Quality Improvement, 18
1-11 Product and Service Costing, 19
Activity-Based Costing, 19
1-12 Quality Costs, 22
Prevention Costs, 23
Appraisal Costs, 23

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3

Internal Failure Costs, 23


External Failure Costs, 24
Hidden Failure Costs, 24
Quality Costs Data Requirements, 24
Proeess Cost Approaeh, 25
1-13 Measuring Quality Costs, 26
Impaet of Quality Improvement on Quality Costs, 28
1-14 Management of Quality, 30
1-15 Quality and Produetivity, 33
Effeet on Cost, 33
Effeet on Market, 33
1-16 Total Quality Environmental Management, 36
1-17 Profile of a Company: The Bama Companies, Ine., 37
Company History and Vision, 37
Eyes on Quality, 38
The Future Looks Bright, 38
Innovation and Quality Improvement, 38
People Make the Company, 39
Summary, 39
Key Terms, 40
Exercises, 40
Referenees, 44
2

Some Philosophies aod Their Impact 00 Quality


2-1 Introduetion and Chapter Objeetives, 47
2-2 Serviee Industries and Their Charaeteristies, 48
Differenees in the Manufaeturing and Serviee Seetors, 48
Serviee Quality Charaeteristies, 50
Measuring Service Quality, 52
Teehniques for Evaluating Service Quality, 52
2-3 Model for Service Quality, 53
2-4 W. Edwards Deming's Philosophy, 56
Extended Proeess, 57
Deming's 14 Points for Management, 58
Deming's Deadly Diseases, 72
2-5 Philip B. Crosby's Philosophy, 75
Four Absolutes of Quality Management, 76
l4-Step Plan for Quality Improvement, 76
2-6 Joseph M. Juran's Philosophy, 78
Quality Trilogy Proeess, 79
Quality Planning, 79
Quality Control, 80
Quality Improvement, 81
2-7 The Three Philosophies Compared, 82
Definition of Quality, 82
Management Commitment, 82

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PART n

STATISTICAL FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS


OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

147

Fundamentals of Statistical Concepts and Techniqnes in


Quality Control and lmprovement

149

4-1
4-2
4-3
4-4

Introduction and Chapter Objectives, 149


Population and Sample, 150
Parameter and Statistic, 150
Probability, 150
Relative Frequency Definition of Probability, 150
Simple and Compound Events, 151
Complementary Events, 152
Additive Law, 153
Multiplicative Law, 153
Independence and Mutually Exc1usive Events, 154
4-5 Descriptive Statistics: Describing Product or Process Characteristics, 156
Data Collection, 156
Measurement Scales, 158
Measures of Central Tendency, 159
Measures of Dispersion, 161
Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis, 166
Measures of Association, 169
4-6 Probability Distributions, 173
Cumulative Distribution Function, 175
Expected Value, 175
Discrete Distributions, 176
Continuous Distributions, 180
4-7 Inferential Statistics: Drawing Conc1usions on
Product and Process Quality, 188
Sampling Distributions, 189
Estimation of Product and Process Parameters, 190
Hypothesis Testing, 199
Summary, 210
Appendix: Approximations to Some Probability
Distributions, 211
Binomial Approximation of the Hypergeometric, 211
Poisson Approximation to the Binomial, 211
Normal Approximation to the Binomial, 212
Normal Approximation to the Poisson, 212
Key Terms, 213
Exercises, 214
References, 227
5

Data Analyses and Sampling


5-1 Introduction and Chapter Objectives, 229
5-2 Empirical Distribution Plots, 229

229

5-3
5-4
5-5

5-6

5-7

Histograms, 229
Stem-and-Leaf Plots, 231
Box Plots, 232
Variations of the Basic Box Plot, 234
Randomness of a Sequence, 234
Run Chart, 235
Validating Distributional Assumptions, 236
Probability Plotting, 237
Transformations to Achieve Normality, 239
Some Common Transformations, 240
Power Transformations, 240
Johnson Transformation, 240
Analysis of Count Data, 244
Hypothesis Test on Cell Probabilities, 244
Contingency Tables, 245
Measures of Association, 246
Concepts in Sampling, 247
Sampling Designs and Schemes, 248
Sample Size Determination, 250
Bound on the Error of Estimation and Associated
Confidence Level, 250
Estimating the Difference of Two Population Means, 252
Estimating the Difference of Two Population
Proportions, 252
Controlling the Type 1 Error, Type II Error, and
Associated Parameter Shift, 253
Summary, 254
Key Terms, 255
Exercises, 256
References, 260

PART 111 STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

263

265

Statistical Process Control Using Control Charts


6-1 lntroduction and Chapter Objectives, 265
6-2 Causes of Variation, 267
Special Causes, 267
Common Causes, 267
6-3 Statistical Basis for Control Charts, 267
Basic PrincipIes, 267
Selection of Control Limits, 269
Errors in Making lnferences from Control Charts, 271
Effect of Control Limits on Errors in lnference Making, 275
Warning Limits, 276
Effect of Sample Size on Control Limits, 276
Average Run Length, 277

PART IV ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING

465

10 Acceptance Sampling Plans for Attributes and Variables

467

10-1
10-2
10-3
10-4

10-5
10-6

10-7
10-8

10-9

10-10
10-11
10-12

10-13

lntroduction and Chapter Objectives, 467


Advantages and Disadvantages of Sampling, 468
Producer and Consumer Risks, 468
Operating Characteristic Curve, 469
Effect of the Sample Size and the
Acceptance Number, 472
Types of Sampling Plans, 473
Advantages and Disadvantages, 474
Evaluating Sampling Plans, 475
Average Outgoing Quality, 475
Average Total Inspection, 477
Average Sample Number, 478
Bayes' Rule and Decision Making Based on Samples, 480
Lot-by-Lot Attribute Sampling Plans, 483
Single Sampling Plans, 483
Double Sampling Plans, 490
Multiple Sampling Plans, 496
Standard Sampling Plans, 497
Other Attribute Sampling Plans, 501
Chain Sampling Plan, 501
Sequential Sampling Plan, 503
Deming's kp Rule, 504
Critique of the kp Rule, 506
Sampling Plans for Variables, 507
Advantages and Disadvantages of Variable Plans, 507
Variable Sampling Plans for a Process Parameter, 508
Estimating Process Average: Single Specification Limit
and Known Process Standard Deviation, 508
Estimating Process Average: Double Specification Limits
and Known Process Standard Deviation, 510
Estimating Process Average: Single Specification Limit
and Unknown Process Standard Deviation, 513
Variable Sampling Plans for Estimating the Lot Proportion
Nonconforming, 514
Derivation of a Variable Sampling Plan with a Single
Specification Limit and Known Process
Standard Deviation, 515
Standardized Plans: ANSI/ISO/ASQ Z1.9
and MIL-STD-414, 518
Summary, 519
Key Terms, 520
Exercises, 520
References, 526

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