Statistical Quality Control

TOLERANCING Introduction Preliminaries Additive Relationship Probabilistic Relationship Tolerance Allocation When the Means Are Not Equal to the Nominal Sizes Tolerance Allocation which Minimizes the Total Manufacturing Cost Tolerance Allocation in Assemblies with More Than One Quality Characteristic Tolerance Allocation When the Number of Processes Is Finite Tolerance Allocation for Nonlinear Relationship among Components LOSS FUNCTION Introduction Development of Taguchi's Loss Function Loss Function for Different Types of Quality Characteristics Robust Design Using Loss Function PROCESS CAPABILITY Introduction Preliminaries Process Capability Indexes and Their Limitations Steps for Estimating Process Capability Indexes Estimators of Process Capability Indexes Process Capability Indexes for Non-normal Characteristics Probability Distributions of Process Capability Indexes MEASUREMENT ERROR Introduction Modeling of Measurement Errors Estimation of Measurement Errors Effect of Measurement Errors OPTIMUM PROCESS LEVEL Introduction Optimal Mean for Larger-the-Better Type Quality Characteristics Optimal Mean for Canning Problem Optimal Mean for Nominal-the-Better Type Quality Characteristics PROCESS SETTING Introduction Preliminaries Optimal Process Setting PROCESS CONTROL Introduction Preliminaries Design of X Bar Control Charts Special Control Charts DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS Introduction Single Factor Experiments Two Factor Experiments Nested Designs 2n Full Factorial Designs in Complete Blocks 2n Full Factorial Designs in Incomplete Blocks 2n Fractional Factorial designs Taguchi's Orthogonal Arrays