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Title: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control by Douglas C. Montgomery ISBN: 0-471-31648-2 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 29 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $118.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about SPC
Comment: As the developer of the QI Macros SPC Software for Excel, customers often call with exotic questions about statistical methods for quality control.
Montgomery's book, more often than not, is the one I turn to for answers that I can't seem to find anywhere else. Even if I do find the answer in another book, it's always easier to understand in Montgomery's. The book is written in a way that makes seemingly incomprehensible statistics understandable. And there are plenty of examples.
If you're looking for a book to help you implement quality control in a small business, Montgomery's book is a bit too much, so you might consider my book on the Small Business Guerrilla Guide to Six Sigma or Six Sigma Simplified.
Rating: 4
Summary: A solid text on statistical quality control
Comment: The book gives an overview of the importance of quality management, the basics of statistics (variability, distributions, etc.), different methods of statistical process control, the use of control charts, capability analysis, design of experiments, process optimization, and sampling. I found all of the chapters informational and practical.
Montgomery does a great job of presenting the theory, giving examples, and helping the reader understand the big picture of various concepts. For example, Montgomery states that a "Pareto chart does not automatically identify the most important defects, but rather only those that occur most frequently," and then gives an example illustrating when this can be so. This is something that might have been overlooked if not pointed out to the reader.
While to book is rather current in introductory theory and practice, there are some relics from previous editions. For example, the inclusion of a random number table in the appendix is rather useless, since all modern calculators and spreadsheets have random number functions. This minor complaint aside, the book is solid and worth having.
Rating: 4
Summary: An all-in-one text.
Comment: This is a rather comprehensive book on SQC. It benefits from a good introductory treatment of Design of Experiments, a subject sorely missing from most SQC texts. The arrangement of topics in the book is logical from both pedagogical and practical points of view, and the author's stress on improvement -- rather than control -- is the right one for the readers.
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Title: Design and Analysis of Experiments, 5th Edition by Douglas C. Montgomery ISBN: 0471316490 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $118.95 |
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Title: Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods, Second Edition by Forrest W. Breyfogle III ISBN: 0471265721 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 24 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Student Resource Manual by Douglas C. Montgomery ISBN: 0471318280 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 28 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Production and Operations Analysis with Student CD-Rom by Steven Nahmias ISBN: 0072417412 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 10 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $140.60 |
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Title: Introduction to Operations Research by Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman ISBN: 0072535105 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 22 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $156.20 |
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