Automating Quality Systems : A guide to the design and implementation of automated quality systems in manufacturing

One: Philosophy and strategy -- 1. Quality in manufacturing -- 2 Why automate? -- 3 The integrated quality system in computerintegrated manufacture -- 4. Assessment of quality performance in manufacturing -- Two: Quality systems — design and innovation -- 5. Systems in quality -- 6. Innovation in quality systems -- 7. Quality systems design and improvement -- 8. Strategy for quality systems automation -- Three: Automatic quality data collection and inspection technology -- 9. Automatic in-process quality control -- 10. Coordinate measuring machines -- 11. Machine vision -- 12. Automatic testing in the electronics industry -- 13. Automatic dimensional gauging -- Four: Quality data analysis and management -- 14. Statistical process control software, data collection and computer-aided inspection -- 15. Automating quality data management — the quality database -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Derivation of quality performance critera -- Appendix B: Further reading -- Appendix C: References.