Newcastle University School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials
CONTENTS
Foreword
What is SPC ?
Tools for SPC
Flow charts
  Run charts
  Pareto charts
  Cause and effect diagrams
  Frequency histograms
  Control charts
common cause variations
    special cause variations
    how they work
    types of charts
    assumptions
    properties of the normal PDF
    interpretation
    hypothesis testing
    run rules for Shewhart charts
    CUSUM charts
    relative merits
Process Capability
concepts
  relative capability
  capability index
  performance index
  the message
Summary
References
Copyright Information

 

 
Useful References

Basic Statistics

  • Chatfield, C. (1983). Statistics for Technology. 3rd Edition. Chapman and Hall.
  • Metcalfe, A.V. (1994). Statistics in Engineering - a practical approach. Chapman and Hall.

Statistical Process Control

  • Caulcutt, R. (1995). Achieving Quality Improvement - a practical guide. Chapman and Hall.
  • Chang, R.Y. (1993). Continuous Process Improvement. Richard Chang Associates.
  • Grant, E.L. (1964). Statistical Quality Control. 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill.
  • Keats, J.B. and Montgomery, D.C. [eds.] (1991). Statistical Process Control in Manufacturing. Marcel Dekker.
  • Kotz, S. and Johnson, N.L. (1993). Process Capability Indices. Chapman and Hall.
  • Ott, E.R. and Schilling, E.G. (1990). Process Quality Control - troubleshooting and interpretation of data. 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill.
  • Pitt, H. (1994). SPC for the Rest of Us. Addison-Wesley.
  • Wetherill, G.B. and Brown, D. W. (1991). Statistical Process Control - theory and practice. Chapman and Hall.
  • Wheeler, D.J. and Chambers, D.S. (1990). Understanding Statistical Process Control. Addison-Wesley.

 

    Written by: M. Tham