Name: Quality Control for Dummies
Author: Larry Webber (Author), Michael Wallace (Author)
ISBN: 9780470069097

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Quality Control for Dummies

Author(s): Larry Webber (Author), Michael Wallace (Author)

Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2006
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 9780470069097
ISBN-13: 9780470069097

Book Description

So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession.

Quality Control for Dummies 1st Edition is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your company’s quality. It covers all of today’s available options and provides expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more. This hands-on guide gives you all the tools you’ll ever need to enhance your company’s quality, including:

Understanding the importance of quality standards
Putting fundamental quality control methods to use
Listening to your customer about quality issues
Whipping quality control into shape with Lean
Working with value stream mapping
Focusing on the 5S method
Supplement a process with Kanban
Fixing tough problems with Six Sigma
Using QFD to win customers over
Improving you company with TOC

This invaluable reference is written from an unbiased viewpoint, giving you all the facts about each theory with no fuzzy coverings. It also includes steps for incorporating quality into a new product and Web sites packed with quality control tips and techniques. With Quality Control for Dummies 1st Edition, you’ll be able to speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money!

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Make quality a priority throughout your organization

Speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money

Need to improve quality in your organization? This practical guide covers quality control options available today, from 5S to Six Sigma to TQM. You’ll find expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more.

THE DUMMIES WAY^®

Explanations in plain English
“Get in, get out” information
Icons and other navigational aids
Tear-out cheat sheet
Top ten lists
A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

Set quality standards
Use quality assurance
Detect the voice of the customer
Assess your quality process
Choose the right approach for your company
Obtain outside help

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