Research Catalog

Title

Economic control of quality of manufactured product / by W.A. Shewhart.

Author

Shewhart, Walter A. (Walter Andrew), 1891-1967.

Publication

New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., ©1931.

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Details

Description

xiv, 501 pages : illustrations, diagrams; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Bell Telephon Laboratories Series

Subject

• Quality control
• Factory management
• Statistics > Graphic methods
• Quality Control
• Qualité > Contrôle
• Usines > Direction
• Statistique > Méthodes graphiques
• quality control
• Factory management
• Quality control
• Statistics Graphic methods
• Handwerksprodukt
• Qualitätskontrolle

Bibliography (note)

• "A bibliographic guide": p. 473-491.

Contents

Characteristics of a controlled quality -- Scientific basis for control -- Advantages secured through control -- Definition of quality -- The problem of presentation of data -- Presentation of data by tables and graphs -- Presentation of data by means of simple functions or statistics -- Basis for determining how to present data -- Presentation of data to indicate relationship -- Laws basic to control -- Statistical control -- Maximum control -- Sampling fluctuations -- Sampling fluctuations in simple statistics under statistical control -- Sampling fluctuations in simple statistics, correlation coefficient -- Sampling fluctuations in simple statistics, general remarks -- Design limits on variablity -- Specification of standard quality -- Detection of lack of control in respect to standard quality -- Detection of lack of control -- Detection of lack of control, continued -- Summary of fundamental principles -- Sampling, measurement -- Sampling -- The control program -- Resultant effects of constant cause systems -- Experimental results.

LCCN

31032090

OCLC

• ocm01045408
• 1045408
• SCSB-327652

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library