Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control: The Power of Shewhart's Charts

by Donald J. Wheeler

This book is the most comprehensive source book on Statistical Process Control since Shewhart s original! It is the definitive book, containing a wealth of information found nowhere else. Unlike books that add layers of complication onto the subject, this book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the underlying theory of process behavior charts. Topics include: the quality of limits for process behavior charts; autocorrelated data and process behavior charts; degrees of freedom for process behavior charts; process behavior charts and chaos theory; cusum and EWMA techniques compared with process behavior charts; the roles of the normal distribution and the central limit theorem; precontrol and zone charts; the analysis of means; how to set manufacturing specifications; using small amounts of data for limits; The Shewhart Chatechism; some differences between theory and practice

470 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 1995