This book of tables is the most complete reference for Plackett-Burman Screening Designs available. In addition to the basic Orthogonal Arrays, it provides data collection worksheets to facilitate conducting experiments and computation worksheets to facilitate the analysis of data. Tables of Confounding Patterns help with the interpretation of the results, making it easier to discover whether significant effects are due to interactions rather than main effects.

Tables of Screening Designs

Business & Money

Donald J. Wheeler

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

SPC PRESS (Statistical Process Control)

This book of "Deming One-Liners" is a handy reference book of memorable Deming quotes. Readers always enjoy the unforgettable Deming humor, and they gain insight into his philosophy. This book makes a great little gift.

The Best of Deming

Ron McCoy

Management & Leadership

This collection of papers presents the basic elements of Continual Improvement. The Germ Theory of Management (by Myron Tribus) is a powerful description of the scope and nature of the transition from traditional ways of doing business. Avoiding Man-Made Chaos, continues this theme, contrasting traditional methods of interpreting data with the use of process behavior charts. Additional sections on avoiding the chaos of mathematical complexity and inappropriate terminology are included. Myths and Foundations outlines four common misconceptions about process behavior charts and four requirements for their effective use. Charts Done Right outlines the difference between the right and wrong ways of computing limits for the two most common types of process behavior charts.

Avoiding Man-made Chaos: And Other Essays

Capability is concerned with characterizing what a process will produce in the future, and readers will learn how to make those predictions. This discussion of capability goes beyond mere computations to illustrate the concepts, the pitfalls, and the appropriate uses of capability indexes for both predictable and unpredictable processes. Examples using data from real-world processes make the ideas clear and easy to grasp. In this popular book Dr. Wheeler has provided practical guidance, based on sound theory, to a perennial problem faced by professionals working in Continual Improvement. The second edition was prepared after The Process Evaluation Handbook was written. Together, the two books make these powerful tools accessible to all readers. In the new edition Chapter 5 was simplified, Chapter 8 was substantially changed, Chapter 9 was reorganized and now includes additional material. More tables are included and exercises, a glossary, and an index have been added.

Beyond Capability Confusion

French Translation of: UNDERSTANDING VARIATION…THE KEY TO MANAGING CHAOS by DONALD J. WHEELERWe live in the Information Age, and much of that information comes to us in the form of numbers. Before numerical information can be useful, however, it must be analyzed, interpreted, and assimilated. Unfortunately, teaching the techniques for making sense of data has been neglected at all levels of our educational system. As a result, throughout our culture there is little appreciation of how to effectively use the volumes of data generated by business, government, and the media. Thousands of readers have found this book to be the remedy.Readers report that this book has changed both the way they look at data and the very form of their monthly reports. It has turned arguments about the numbers into a common understanding of what needs to be done about them. These techniques and benefits have been thoroughly proven in a wide variety of settings. Read this book and use the techniques to gain the benefits for yourself and your organization.

Comprendre LA Variation (French Edition)

This book provides a completely new approach to creating ANOM charts. Using new tables of exact critical values this book reduces the calculation of the ANOM limits to the same level of simplicity found with Average and Range Charts. By combining the ease of computation enjoyed by the Average Chart with the ability to fine tune the analysis that you need with experimental data, this book is a breakthrough for practitioners. Tables, explanations, and examples are provided for the Analysis of Means, the Analysis of Ranges, the Analysis of Main Effects, and the Analysis of Mean Ranges.

Range Based Analysis of Means

Science & Math

Mathematics

Tired of creating tool zombies with little to show for it? Not getting the results you expected from Six Sigma? Try Practical Process Improvement. The objective of PPI is to increase profit and organizational effectiveness by improving customer satisfaction, quality, and productivity, all while reducing costs. It is based on three principles: Apply logical simplicity, use practical methods and tools, involve everyone.Ed Zunich has developed a very powerful program that is being used successfully throughout a huge multinational corporation. This book describes its philosophy, background, principles, and practical applications. Managers and employees at all levels will find the book informative and easy to read, and the methods simple and effective. PPI replaces complex programs with a straightforward method one that works.

Practical Process Improvement: A Program for Market Leadership in the 21st Century

R. Edward Zunich

This book is a greatly expanded version of the classic green book. Part One provides techniques characterizing the Measurement Process that are simple, effective, and correct. Here the concepts of consistency, precision, and bias are addressed. Part Two shows how to evaluate your measurement process using Average and Range Charts. Examples of four different types of one-time measurement system analysis studies are provided along with 25 case histories. Part Three discusses the use of imperfect data. These chapters cover chunky data, censored data, characterizing the product not measured, and prediction. Part Four gives the in-depth explanations behind the techniques presented in the rest of the book, as well as describing how to do an honest Gauge R&amp;R Study. This book is required reading for anyone who has less than perfect data.

EMP III (Evaluating the Measurement Process): Using Imperfect Data

An alternate title for this book might have been "Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Data Analysis." Drawing on 40 years of study, practice, instruction, and consultation, this book provides brief answers to many of the commonly occurring questions that arise when people begin to use process behavior charts. While the first chapter recaps some material from Understanding Variation, the rest complement and complete the message of that book. In every case the objective was to enable you to better and more easily use process behavior charts to get the most out of your processes and operations. Since not all sources of information about SPC are equally reliable, some of the chapters are, of necessity, focused on mistakes and misinformation that are currently in circulation. In the interest of completeness, these chapters also include enough of the background material to justify the answer given. In addition, citations are given for those who wish to delve more deeply into any particular topic.

Twenty Things You Need to Know

This book is written for everyone who is trying to do more with less! Using a proven methodology of reducing production costs, it shows you how to evaluate paybacks so that you can pick winning improvement strategies. Unlike many programs (that often rely on smoke and mirrors), this approach is built solely on the process data itself. These techniques remove guesswork and replace it with practical tools built upon a rigorous theoretical foundation. Some of this material has been available for years, but there has been no serious effort to integrate the tools into the conceptual framework that promotes their effective use. Use this book and join practitioners who have been taught the conceptual framework for the techniques and have had spectacular results! Their success is proof that this methodology, used as the foundation for improvement efforts, does work-and works supremely well-in practice. Discover how the nature of data leads to two distinctly different approaches to improvement. Learn how to get the most out of existing systems using observational studies. See how to quantify the Excess Costs of Production. Learn how to quantify the Excess Costs of Use. Discover how these Excess Costs are related to Capability Indexes. Learn how to use the tables to find the Excess Costs for: Two-Sided Specifications, One-Sided Specifications, Target at Boundary Condition, and when the Nominal Costs change with aim. Get the formulas for finding the Excess Costs for Count Data. Find all of the computational details for the ten tables of Excess Costs in the summary chapter. This book is intended to breathe a breath of life into the dry bones of the computations and techniques of SPC, and to take you to the point where you understand how simple and easy it is to continually and relentlessly reduce production costs-leading, of course, to a better bottom line!

Reducing Production Costs

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