Effecting a Quality Change
An Engineering Approach
- 1st Edition - September 30, 1996
- Latest edition
- Authors: S W Field, K. G. Swift
- Language: English
Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the… Read more
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Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed up by numerous industrial experiences, illustrating the practical obstacles when implementing any quality change. Focusing on the essentials of quality (strategies, principles and techniques) designing for quality is also discussed and new techniques for assessing the risks and costs of non-conformance are introduced. The result is an insight to quality engineering that will prove invaluable to engineering students and professionals.
Inclusion of case studies
Useful for university staff, practising engineers and managers interested in effecting a quality improvement
Also ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates of engineering and business studies
Useful for university staff, practising engineers and managers interested in effecting a quality improvement
Also ideal for undergraduates and postgraduates of engineering and business studies
Advanced FE and undergraduate engineers of all disciplines (especially manufacturing engineers), management sciences and business studies students, professional engineers, quality assurance specialists.
Foreword * 1. The Modern Concept of Quality - Historical Perspective * International View * What is Quality? * Quality Principles * 2. Quality Cultures - The Need for Team-work * The Role of the Quality Department * Industrial Experiences * 3. Total Quality - What is Total Quality? * Customer-Supplier Relationship * Industrial Experiences * 4. External Supplier Quality - Procurement Strategy * Industrial Experiences * 5. Software Quality - Codes of Practise * Industrial Experiences * 6. Quality Tools and Techniques - Tools and Techniques Overview * Industrial Experiences * 7. Designing for Quality - Developments in Design for Quality * Conformability Analysis * Industrial Applications of Conformability Analysis * Industrial Example * 8. The Costs of Quality - Elements of the Costs of Quality * Quality - Cost Models * Industrial Experiences * 9. A Review of Selected Quality Tools and Techniques - Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) * Statistical Process Control (SPC) * Process Capability Studies (Cp and Cpk) * Design of Experiments (DOE) * Quality Function Deployment (QFD) * Poka Yoke * 10. How to Effect a Quality Change - Strategy for Change * The Process of Change * A Quality Improvement Programme * 11. Future Developments - Extension of Total Quality Management * Initiating Joint Projects with Suppliers and Customers * Research Directions * Sample Questions for Student Reference * References * Appendices.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 30, 1996
- Language: English
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S W Field
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Hull, UKKS
K. G. Swift
Professor Ken Swift is the Lucas Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at University of Hull, UK. Following decades of research and collaboration with leading manufacturing groups worldwide, his current research interests include capability analysis and probabilistic design, flexible assembly and inspection systems. He has received numerous awards and prizes in the area of design and manufacturing, including the Donald Julius Groen Prize, awarded for a paper on manufacturing process selection in the IMechE Journal of Engineering Manufacture.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Hull, UK