Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product/50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue

This monumental work laid the foundation for this modern quality control discipline, and it remains as current today as ever. It began as an attempt to develop a scientific basis for attaining economic control of quality through the establishment of control limits to indicate when the quality of product is varying more than is economically desirable. In his search for better knowledge of economy in manufacture, the author touches upon all aspects of statistical quality control. The book includes a presentation of the fundamental concepts and advantages of statistical control; ways of expressing quality of product (a section containing a discourse that has been described as a masterpiece on the meaning of quality); the basis for specification of quality control; sampling fluctuations in quality; allowable variability in quality (which contains the first fully developed use of control charts); and quality control in practice. This is required reading for anyone seriously interested in the study of quality control. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents •Part I. Introduction 1. Characteristics of a Controlled Quality 2. Scientific Basis for Control 3. Advantages Secured through Control •Part II. Ways of Expressing Quality of Product 4. Definition of Quality 5. The Problem of Presentation of Data 6. Presentation of Data by Tables And Graphs 7. Presentation of Data by Means of Simple Functions or Statistics 8. Basis for Determining How to Present Data 9. Presentation of Data to Indicate Relationship •Part III. Basis for Specification of Quality Control 10. Laws Basic to Control 11. Statistical Control 12. Maximum Control •Part IV. Sampling Fluctuations in Quality 13. Sampling Fluctuations 14. Sampling Fluctuations in Simple Statistics under Statistical Control 15. Sampling Fluctuations in Simple Statistics - Correlation Coefficient 16. Sampling Fluctuations in Simple Statistics - General Remarks •Part V. Statistical Basis for Specification of Standard Quality 17. Design Limits on Variability 18. Specification of Standard Quality •Part VI. Allowable Variability in Quality 19. Detection of Lack of Control in Respect to Standard Quality 20. Detection of Lack of Control 21. Detection of Lack of Control - Continued •Part VII. Quality Control in Practice 22. Summary of Fundamental Principles 23. Sampling - Measurement 24. Sampling 25. The Control Program Appendices Index of Names Index of Subjects When Walter A. Shewhart (the father of modern quality control) described his book as ...an indication of the direction in which future developments may be expected to take place, could he have forseen its enormous impact? This monumental work laid the foundation for this modern quality control discipline, and it remains as current today as ever. It began as an attempt to develop a scientific basis for attaining economic control of quality through the establishment of control limits to indicate when the quality of product is varying more than is economically desirable.

In his search for better knowledge of economy in manufacture, Shewhart touches upon all aspects of statistical quality control. The book includes a presentation of the fundamental concepts and advantages of statistical control; ways of expressing quality of product (a section containing a discourse that has been described as a masterpiece on the meaning of quality); the basis for specification of quality control; sampling fluctuations in quality; allowable variability in quality (which contains the first fully developed use of control charts); and quality control in practice. This is required reading for anyone seriously interested in the study of quality control.

About the Author: The father of modern quality control, Walter A. Shewhart brought together the disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics in a simple but highly effective tool: the control chart. This technique, and the principles behind it, have played key roles in economic developments from the 1940's through to the present day.

Most of Shewhart's professional career was spent at Western Electric as an engineer from 1918 to 1924 and at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1925 until his retirement in 1956. In addition, he served for more than 20 years as the first editor of the Mathematical Statistics Series published by John Wiley & Sons.

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