Praise for the First Edition
"This book . . . is a significant addition to the literature on
statistical practice . . . should be of considerable interest to those
interested in these topics."
--International Journal of Forecasting
Recent research has shown that monitoring techniques alone are
inadequate for modern Statistical Process Control (SPC), and there
exists a need for these techniques to be augmented by methods that
indicate when occasional process adjustment is necessary. Statistical
Control by Monitoring and Adjustment, Second Edition presents the
relationship among these concepts and elementary ideas from Engineering
Process Control (EPC), demonstrating how the powerful synergistic
association between SPC and EPC can solve numerous problems that are
frequently encountered in process monitoring and adjustment.
The book begins with a discussion of SPC as it was originally conceived
by Dr. Walter A. Shewhart and Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Subsequent chapters
outline the basics of the new integration of SPC and EPC, which is not
available in other related books. Thorough coverage of time series
analysis for forecasting, process dynamics, and non-stationary models is
also provided, and these sections have been carefully written so as to
require only an elementary understanding of mathematics. Extensive
graphical explanations and computational tables accompany the numerous
examples that are provided throughout each chapter, and a helpful
selection of problems and solutions further facilitates understanding.
Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment, Second Edition is an
excellent book for courses on applied statistics and industrial
engineering at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It also
serves as a valuable reference for statisticians and quality control
practitioners working in industry.
