Industrial quality control Books

Radiographic Testing book is a complete guide to the principles and practices of non-destructive testing (NDT) using X-rays. This NDT book is designed for NDT technicians, inspectors, engineers, and students who are interested in learning the theory,...

The ASQ Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA) certification introduces the basics of quality to organizations and individuals who are new to quality. This book, and the Body of Knowledge (BoK) it supports, form a foundation for applying proven...

The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are committed to improving their safety, health, and environmental performance, but are not sure where to start or do not wish...

Global economy and its business environment, and thus the world of work, have recently been influenced by demographic and social changes, globalisation, as well as rapid development and introduction of novel, sophisticated and previously unknown...

The authors of this monograph have developed a large and important class of survival analysis models that generalize most of the existing models. In a unified, systematic presentation, this monograph fully details those models and explores areas of...

Providing a ready made, quick and easy-to-learn approach for applying design of experiments techniques to problems, this book examines the entire product lifecycle and the tools and techniques necessary to measure quality at each stage. The authors...

"Welding Terminology: A Guide to MIG, TIG, Stick, Gas, and Spot Welding Terms" serves as your definitive guide to understanding the language of the welding industry with clarity and accuracy.From experienced welders to engineering professionals,...

This book offers a systems and life cycle or total ownership cost perspective. It presents advanced costing techniques such as simulation-based costing, decision analysis, complex systems costing, software, big data, and cloud computing estimation...

This book provides advanced techniques for precision compensation and fault diagnosis of precision motion systems and rotating machinery. Techniques and applications through experiments and case studies for intelligent precision compensation and fault...

Accident prevention is a common thread throughout every aspect of our society. However, even with the most current technological developments, keeping people safe and healthy, both at workplaces and at other daily activities, is still a continual...

This is the third edition of Asset Management Excellence.

New laws, global competition, technological advances, and evolving societal values toward disability all demand the integration of universal and accessible design principles into the general practice of the design community. This growing international...

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work. It combines a range of disciplines - e.g. work physiology, health informatics, safety engineering, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational...

This book features selected papers presented at The International Science and Technology Conference "FarEastCon", which took place on October 2-4, 2018 in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.The conference represents an informational platform for...

This book explores a number of important issues in the area of occupational safety and hygiene. Presenting both research and best practices for the evaluation of occupational risk, safety and health in various types of industry, it particularly focuses...

This book serves as a comprehensive guide on quality control and regulatory aspects for biological products. It covers a wide range of topics, including regulatory requirements, quality control strategies, analytical methods, and risk management.

Quality Assurance (QA) is a measure of the degree of sophistication of managerial, scientific and technical tools used in the design and implementation of product process of any industry. QA is the most vital function of Total Quality Management (TQM) in...

The purpose of this book is to give insight, conceptual clarity as well as practical guidance related to evaluation of measurement uncertainty.

"Quality" is the latest buzz word in business and industry-quality control, quality assurance, quality improvement, and quality systems. But what does quality mean to you? Fundamentals of Industrial Quality Control, Third Edition shows how the concept of...

Ultrasonic Testing Interview Questions and Answers book is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to understand the fundamental principles and practices of ultrasonic testing. This book covers a wide range of topics, including the physical principles...

The business, commercial and public-sector world has changed dramatically since John Oakland wrote the first edition of Statistical Process Control - a practical guide　in the mid-eighties. Then people were rediscovering statistical methods of 'quality...

This work focuses on resilience estimation and control of cyber-physical networked systems using attacker-defender game theory. It presents attack and defense strategies and describes the design and resilience of control systems to withstand...

The Document Methodology III makes a rock solid case for knowledge as the single most valuable asset of any organization.  It proposes a systems engineering discipline with which to capture, quantify, categorize, store and utilize knowledge to...

As engineering systems become more and more complex, industry has recognized the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Despite its efforts, however, industry continues to lose...

This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify risks at different processes, phases, and stages and offers directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using...

Compiling strategies from more than 30 years of experience, this book provides numerous case studies that illustrate the implementation of noise control applications, as well as solutions to common dilemmas encountered in noise reduction processes. It...

Many engineers and scientists have receive little or no training in designed experiments, and any courses that are available tend to be either abstract and divorced from practical considerations or strictly practical-lacking the rigor and depth necessary...

As optimization techniques have developed, a gap has arisen between the people devising the methods and the people who actually need to use them. Research into methods is necessarily long-term and located usually in academic establishments; whereas the...

The focus of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing a road map for organizations wishing to receive accreditation for their laboratories.AS9100, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 13485:2016 are standards...

This work presents the fundamental principles of continuous flow manufacturing, furnishing a corporate strategy and set of operating rules that help create an environment where continuous flow manufacturing can flourish. A 10-step methodology for...

Explaining the symbology of dimensioning and tolerancing and introducing a step-by-step system for geometric definition, this book provides examples for the application of geometric controls. The author breaks down the language of geometric product...

Improvements in safety in the air and in space can be achieved through better ergonomics, better work environments, and other efforts of traditional avionic psychology that directly affect human behaviors and performance. Not limited to just the...

Based on the author's 20 years of teaching, Risk Analysis in Engineering: Techniques, Tools, and Trends presents an engineering approach to probabilistic risk analysis (PRA). It emphasizes methods for comprehensive PRA studies, including techniques for...

In engineering and quality control, various situations, including process validation and design verification, require equivalence and noninferiority tests. Equivalence and Noninferiority Tests for Quality, Manufacturing and Test Engineers presents...

This book presents a comprehensive, integrated view of quality in frozen foods. It addresses quality from a number of perspectives: technological (mechanical and cryogenic methods of freezing); categorical (classification of...

Reliability and safetyare core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineeringsystems. Reliability and Safety Engineering presents an overview of the basicconcepts, together with simple and practical illustrations.The authors...

Control Performance Management in Industrial Automation provides a coherent and self-contained treatment of a group of methods and applications of burgeoning importance to the detection and solution of problems with control...

During its life cycle, a product produces waste that is over 20 times its weight. As such it is critical to develop products that are sustainable. Currently product development processes lack high quality methods and tools that are empirically validated...

Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series. The manuscripts provide examples of implementations of asset information systems as well as some...

Bayesian Inference for Probabilistic Risk Assessment provides a Bayesian foundation for framing probabilistic problems and performing inference on these problems. Inference in the book employs a modern computational approach known as Markov chain Monte...

Warranty Data Collection and Analysis deals with warranty data collection and analysis and the problems associated with these activities. The book is a both a research monograph and a handbook for practitioners. As a research monograph, it unifies the...

Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications is a comprehensive guide to software reliability measurement, prediction, and control. It provides a thorough understanding of the field and gives solutions to the decision-making problems that concern...

Fault Location - Basic Concept and Characteristic of Methods.- Network Configurations and Models.- Power-line Faults - Models and Analysis.- Signal Processing for Fault Location.- Measurement Chains of Fault Locators.- One-end Impedance-based...

Part I: Foundation Complexity of Proceduralized Tasks Significant Complexity Factors Part II: Complexity Evaluation Introduction to Software Complexity Emergency Tasks Prescribed in the EOPs of NPPs Analyzing the Required Actions Prescribed in Emergency...

1. The Societal Capacity to Commit Resources2. Social Indicators for Managing Risk3. Judging Risks Using the Life Quality Method4. Air Quality Standards5. Nuclear Safety6. Port Cities with High Exposure to Flood7. Optimal Design of a Flood Protection...

1. Signature Representation and Preservation Results for Engineered Systems and Applications to Statistical Inference.- 2. Using D-Spectra in Network Monte Carlo: Estimation of System Reliability and Component Importance.- 3. Signatures and Symmetry...

A guide to implementing and operating a practical reliability program using carefully designed experiments to provide information quickly, efficiently and cost effectively. It emphasizes real world solutions to daily problems. The second edition contains...