Quality Control

by Dale H. Besterfield

Practical and state-of-the-art in approach, this book provides fundamental—yet comprehensive-coverage of quality control concepts. Sufficient theory is presented to ensure that learners gain a sound understanding of the basic principles of quality control. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics covers principles and practices, tools and techniques, fundamentals of statistics, control charts for variables, additional SPC techniques for variables, fundamentals of probability, control charts for attributes, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling by attributes, acceptance sampling systems, reliability, and management and planning. The substantial use of probability and statistical techniques is reduced to simple mathematics or is developed in the form of tables and charts. For quality control engineers.

520 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1979

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 1 out of 5]

I used this book for a course I taught on statistical quality control at a major mid-western university. Despite the fact that we used the 8th edition, there were numerous typographical errors in the text.

A CD accompanies the book. Several of the Excel templates provided have bugs and do not match the examples presented in the book, not because of typos in the text but because the formulas were wrong. Other templates were horribly designed - who labels a column as the average and then computes (column A)/2 + (column B)/2?

I always tell my students to do problems which are answered in the back. With this book, that wasn't always helpful. Some of the answers in the back are wrong, obviously not related to the question. I suspect that the answer section was copied from a previous edition and not checked carefully.

Even the instructor manual was poorly done. Again, I suspect the one provided was for a previous edition.

A frustrating book for someone trying to learn, and very frustrating for someone trying to teach.

[Umair Shabbir · Rating 1 out of 5]

it will gave me good grads

[Hyder Hamid]

so excited to read it

[Mark Ryan]

research

[Aarsyid Pratama · Rating 5 out of 5]

good

[Rao Aamir · Rating 5 out of 5]

ryer

[Rico Saladino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quality Control With CDROM

[Nelson Gallema]

COOL