1st Edition

Process Capability Analysis Estimating Quality

By Neil W. Polhemus Copyright 2018
284 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

284 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

284 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Process Capability Analysis: Estimating Quality presents a systematic exploration of process capability analysis and how it may be used to estimate quality. The book is designed for practitioners who are tasked with insuring a high level of quality for the products and services offered by their organizations. Along with describing the necessary statistical theory, the book illustrates the... Read more

Preface. Introduction. Capability Analysis Based on Proportion of Nonconforming Items. Capability Analysis Based on Rate of Nonconformities . Capability Indices for Normally Distributed Data. Capability Analysis of Non-Normal Data . Statistical Tolerance Limits. Multivariate Capability Analysis. Conclusion. References.

Biography

Dr. Polhemus is Chief Technology Officer for Statpoint Technologies, Inc. and directs the development of STATGRAPHICS. He received his B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, under the tutelage of Dr. J. Stuart Hunter. Dr. Polhemus spent two years as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and six years as an assistant professor in the Engineering School at Princeton University.Dr. Polhemus founded Statistical Graphics Corporation in 1980 to develop and promote the STATGRAPHICS software program. In 1983, he founded Strategy Plus, Inc., which developed EXECUSTAT for DOS. Dr. Polhemus founded NWP Associates, Inc., in 1993 to develop STATLETS, a set of Java applets which permit statistical data analysis over the Internet. In 1999 development of STATGRAPHICS was assumed by Statpoint Technologies, Inc.Dr. Polhemus lives in northern Virginia with his wife Caroline and is the proud father of four sons: Christopher, Gregory, Leland, and Michael.