Process Capability Indices

This book clarifies the statistical meaning of process capability indices by presenting the theory to investigate the properties of various indices available in the literature and to convince practitioners of the advisability of representing estimates of process capability by a pair of numbers.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The basic process capability indices: Cp, Cpk and their modifications 3. The Cpm index and related indices 4. Process capability indices under non-normality: Robustness properties 5. Multivariate process capability indices

About the author

Samuel Kotz, PhD, honorary Doctor of Science, is professor and research scholar at the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Summary

This book clarifies the statistical meaning of process capability indices by presenting the theory to investigate the properties of various indices available in the literature and to convince practitioners of the advisability of representing estimates of process capability by a pair of numbers.

Product details

• Authors: Norman L. Johnson, Norman L. (University of North Carolina Johnson, Norman Lloyd Johnson, Johnson Norman L., Kotz Kotz, Samuel Kotz, Samuel (George Washinghton University Kotz, Kotz Samuel
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2014
• EAN: 9780412543807
• ISBN: 978-0-412-54380-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Weight: 290 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Quality Control, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Production & quality control management, Manufacturing industries, Industrial quality control, Production and quality control management