World Class Quality : Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen

Preliminaries -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Need for and Objectives and Benefits of Design of Experiments -- 2. Fads, Potions, Nostrums of the Quality -- 3. A Powerful Tool Kit for the 21st Century -- 4. The Measurement of Process Capability -- 5. Variation: An Industrial Epidemic -- 6. The Three Approaches to DOE -- 7. A Synopsis of the 10 Powerful DOE Tools -- 8. The Multi-Vari Analysis -- 9. The Concentration Chart -- 10. Components Search -- 11. Paired Comparisons -- 12. Product/Process Search -- 13. Variables Search -- 14. The Full Factorial -- 15. B versus C -- 16. Scatter Plots to Achieve Realistic Specifications and Tolerances -- 17. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) -- 18. Positrol: Freezing Process Gains -- 19. Process Certification -- 20. Control Charts -- 21. Pre-Control -- 22. Multiple Environment Over Stress Tests -- 23. Case Studies in Sequential DOE Tools to Solve Chronic Problems -- 24. Learning by Doing -- References -- Index.