Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Proven techniques for improving software and process quality with Six Sigma This practical, in-depth guide explains how to apply Six Sigma to solve common product and process improvement challenges in the software and IT industry. Six Sigma Software Quality Improvement covers Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC), Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify (DMADV). Featuring more than 20 success stories from Motorola, IBM, Cisco, Seagate, Xerox, Thomson Reuters, TCS, EMC, Infosys, and Convergys, the book offers first-hand accounts of corporate Six Sigma programs and explains how these companies are successfully leveraging Six Sigma for software process and quality improvement. The success stories reveal how: Motorola minimized business risk before changing business-critical applications TCS improved fraud detection for a global bank Infosys improved software development productivity for a large multinational bank IBM reduced help desk escalations and overhead activities EMC improved development productivity Motorola realized significant cost avoidance by streamlining processes and project documentation Xerox achieved high-speed product development Seagate reduced application downtime and improved availability to 99.99% Cisco successfully reinvented its Six Sigma program Convergys injected Six Sigma into the company's DNA Thomson Reuters' Six Sigma program gathered significant momentum in a short time Six Sigma was successfully applied in many other projects for defect reduction, cycle time reduction, productivity improvement, and more

The book gives engineers the techniques and tools they need to use accelerated reliability testing (ART) and accelerated durability testing (ART) as key factors to accurately predict a product's quality, reliability, durability, and maintainability during given time (service life, warranty period, and other). The book covers a new ideas and unique approach to accurate simulation and integration of field inputs, safety, and human factors, as well as accelerated product development, as components of interdisciplinary systems engineering. Professionals will find in this book the answer how one can carry out ART and ADT technology in a practical manner. Learn how the implementation of ART and ADT can solve previously inaccessible problems in engineering, reduce product recalls, cost, and time during design, manufacture, and usage.

Es un libro util, de introduccion a la Estadistica, con gran cantidad de ejercicios resueltos, sirviendo tambien como iniciacion al Control de Calidad. Trata los errores en laboratorio de forma progresiva, desde lo mas basico a lo mas complejo.

HELPS YOU FULLY LEVERAGE STATISTICAL METHODS TO IMPROVE INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE

"Industrial Statistics" guides you through ten practical statistical methods that have broad applications in many different industries for enhancing research, product design, process design, validation, manufacturing, and continuous improvement. As you progress through the book, you'll discover some valuable methods that are currently underutilized in industry as well as other methods that are often not used correctly.

With twenty-five years of teaching and consulting experience, author Anand Joglekar has helped a diverse group of companies reduce costs, accelerate product development, and improve operations through the effective implementation of statistical methods. Based on his experience working with both clients and students, Dr. Joglekar focuses on real-world problem-solving. For each statistical method, the book:

Presents the most important underlying concepts clearly and succinctly

Minimizes mathematical details that can be delegated to a computer

Illustrates applications with numerous practical examples

Offers a "Questions to Ask" section at the end of each chapter to assist you with implementation

The last chapter consists of 100 practical questions followed by their answers. If you're already familiar with statistical methods, you may want to take the test first to determine which methods to focus on.

By helping readers fully leverage statistical methods to improve industrial performance, this book becomes an ideal reference and self-study guide for scientists, engineers, managers and other technical professionals across a wide range of industries. In addition, its clear explanations and examples make it highly suited as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics.

Even though most organizations have extensive safety, health, and environmental protocols in place, things often go wrong. Having good quality instructions is only half the battle. An equally crucial part of a good quality process is auditing, the step that ensures compliance with the procedures. Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing: A Practical Guide provides down to earth guidance on improving safety, health, and environmental performance, supplying a starting point for developing auditing protocols and knowing how to implement them.
In contrast to the overly-academic and uninspiring tone of many auditing books, this text gives accessible, user-friendly advice in a step-by-step manner. Based on novel auditing techniques designed to overcome common problems in the audit process, the book emphasizes accurate auditing that is representative and repeatable. It has been written in such a way that it is easy to dip into and out of the short chapters to refresh your memory prior to or during an audit. Alleviating the need to trawl through mountains of text to find useful and practical checklists, the author provides a set of audit protocols covering 60 different aspects of environmental, health, and safety management in Appendix 2 and frequently used, practical administrative checklists useful for planning and conducting the audit in Appendix 1.
The book integrates the concepts of safety, health, and environmental auditing into a common approach of loss prevention. Based on the author's 16 years of developing and teaching EHS auditing techniques, it conveys the practical tricks of the trade in an interesting and memorable way. Not only does the book advise on the human factor elements of successful auditing, but it also provides a detailed methodology, both on paper and in simple-to-use software, that shows organizations how to conduct their own audits in an effective manner.

Le Six Sigma est aujourdhui une des methodes les plus importantes et les plus significatives pour ameliorer la qualite des processus et des produits. Le petit livre du Six Sigma est un guide pratique de mise en place de la methode. Il ne sadresse pas uniquement aux managers; il est aussi un guide pratique pour les operationnels. Il couvre: 1. Introduction et historique de la methode. 2. Une demarche d amelioration en cinq etapes (DMAAC). 3. Un ensemble d outils pour chacune des cinq etapes. 4. La conception pour le Six Sigma.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Software programs are increasingly being used to manage and control plant and equipment maintenance in modern manufacturing and service industries. However, 60% to 80% of all programs fail because of poor planning, costing millions of dollars. Written by an expert with over 30 years of experience, this book employs a step by step approach for evaluating the company's needs then selecting the proper CMMS.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. UPGRADE MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PERFORMANCE WITH POWERFUL STATISTICAL TOOLSThere's no better way to master the most rigorous statistical methods available for analyzing the performance of complex systems -- Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quality Management teaches powerful analytic tools for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, process control, quality improvement, and many other applications. Written by statistics experts who specialize in reliability and quality engineering, this unique resource introduces the fundamentals and then demonstrates how to: *Choose the best method for each data set * Make complex data intelligible with graphical tools * Coax important hidden information from data with graphical 3-D software and numerical multivariate data stratification * Perform data reduction with principal component analysis, factor analysis, and discriminant analysis * Apply multivariate methods in Six Sigma enterprises * Get clarification from case studies, models, and 50 illustrations * Uncover the source of problems and pinpoint solutions in arenas from manufacturing processes to sales performance and beyond

Dieses interdisziplinare Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk gibt einen klar strukturierten, orientierenden UEberblick uber Aufgaben, Strukturen, Organisationen und Akteure in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen von Notfallvorsorge und Gefahrenabwehr. Thematisiert werden sowohl natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftliche als auch sozial- und humanwissenschaftliche Aspekte des Risiko- und Katastrophenmanagements, sodass der Bevoelkerungsschutz in Deutschland als eine klassische Querschnittsaufgabe erscheint. Das Werk leistet einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Entwicklung ubergreifender Reflexions- und Entscheidungskompetenz fur Risiko- und Katastrophenmanager, Rettungs- und Sicherheitsingenieure, Emergency Practitioner, Fachberater, Einsatzleiter und weitere Fuhrungskrafte.

Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, die Methodik FMEA sowie die angrenzenden Themen zu verstehen und anzuwenden. Es raumt mit dem Vorurteil auf, FMEA ware nur ein Qualitatstool, das von Qualitatsspezialisten durchgefuhrt wird. Vielmehr kann die FMEA in jeder Branche als Werkzeug benutzt werden, um Produkte, Projekte, Aufgaben und Dienstleistungen ausserst planbar, nachvollziehbar und zielorientiert umzusetzen. Das strukturierte Vorgehen unterstutzt Problemlosungen und schafft somit neue Denkansatze (praventive Qualitatssicherungsmethodik
und Risikoanalyse).
Bei richtiger Anwendung werden Sie Zeit, Geld und Kapazitat einsparen

Comprehensive and accessible, this book presents fundamental principles and applications that are essential for food production and food service safety. It provides basic, practical information on the daily operations in a food processing plant and reviews some of the industry's most recent developments. The Second Edition of the book, formerly titled Food Plant Sanitation, discusses nine additional food processing industries and contains 14 new chapters. Among others, new topics include sanitation in food transportation and sanitation of fresh produce in retail establishments.

The true promise and benefits of Supply Chain Management elude many organizations. Cultural limitations, a narrow view of the opportunities offered by and the need to access external resources juxtaposed with a lack of understanding of how technology can enhance business processes create resistance. The Supply Chain Manager's Problem-Solver: Maximizing the Value of Collaboration and Technology explores the benefits of a full network approach and illustrates specific actions that lead to success. The author uses case studies to validate the concepts and solutions, provides an easy to understand and apply methodology for getting to higher levels of progress, and explores areas of potential technology application that often get overlooked.

This volume provides a general picture of the current trends in the area of automatic control, with particular emphasis on practical problems in the mechanical field. For this reason, besides theoretical contributions, it presents selected lectures on recent developments interesting from an industrial point of view, such as automotive, robotics, motion control, and electrical drives.

Adopting a hands-on approach, this work shows how to achieve ISO 9000 registration efficiently and economically, through the TAP-PDSA (Train, Audit and Plan / Plan, Do, Study, Act) method. It explains issues encountered in registering, providing real examples, and addresses the functions of a registrar, the importance of choosing a registrar early, and the criteria of registrar selection. The primary goals of registration - to improve quality, achieve customer satisfaction and increase profitability - are stressed.

Das Standardwerk behandelt Methoden des Konstruierens menschengerechter Produkte und zeigt Beispiele zum Loesen sicherheitstechnischer Fragestellungen wahrend des Konstruktionsprozesses - aus der Praxis fur die Praxis. Es ist ein didaktisch aufgebautes Kompendium genormter Verfahren und eine Sammlung neuer und bewahrter Ideen. Systematisch aufgebaute UEbersichten enthalten zahlreiche praktische Beispiele fur unmittelbare konstruktive Sicherheitsmassnahmen, Schutzeinrichtungen und fur Konstruktionsmassnahmen zum Umsetzen ergonomischer Anforderungen an Maschinen

Enabling management to verify that processes are being performed correctly and in an efficient manner, standardized work provides limitless opportunities for process improvements. So much so, that it has become a vital component of improvement efforts in Lean enterprise systems. New Horizons in Standardized Work: Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement is an all-inclusive guide to applying standardized work principles to virtually any business in any industry. It facilitates a fundamental understanding of standardized work principles and the logic behind their development, so readers can successfully extend and adapt them to their own work situation. It also: * Supplies an accessible introduction to standardized work, from a cyclic perspective * Explains how to instill and maintain quality in work processes right from the get go * Provides the foundational basis required to apply standardized work concepts to a wide range of work situations * Includes several appendices with helpful tips and problem-solving tools In a step-by-step format, this book discusses the relationship of the work period and the takt time, as well as the importance of the three main worker interface levels in job design. It includes an array of examples that demonstrate how the concepts discussed can be applied across a range of industries -- including health care, construction, business processes, and food services.

The lean Japanese production systems that brought success to that country's manufacturing industries have reached their limits. This book examines the question of how to restructure robust technology bases to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturing industries.

This book describes the basic theory of performance engineering (essentially the control of traffic in communications, but nowadays applied to other aspects of systems design as well) and its application to both circuit- and packet-switched systems. As an increasing number of systems have become too complex to be analysed theoretically, simulation techniques are introduced. Also covered are other applications such as reliability and tolerances, including the relationship between radio fading and teletraffic in cellular mobile communications. The book is aimed at senior undergraduates as well as graduate and professional engineers and their managers.