TQM Engineering Handbook

Establishes a sound rationale for the continuation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in all organizations, offering a model, and implementation strategy, as well as traditional and non-traditional methods for the successful enhancement and maintenance of quality. The book considers leading quality-related topics such as unusual charts, supplier-organization-customer relationships, customer needs and expectations, instructional design, adult learning, advanced quality planning, and reliability!

Quality overview; traditional quality concepts; modern quality concepts; implementation strategy of total quality management; tools of quality; special tools and techniques for the future world of quality; unusual yet powerful tools used in TQM;regression - the foundation of multivariate analysis; design of experiments (DOE); more tools for modern quality; the full chain of quality - supplier, organization and customer relationship; value analysis; problem solving; teams; meetings; projectmanagement; training; quality planning; overview of reliability; quality awards; international standards of quality and corporate quality awards; epilogue; appendix a - selection of statistical techniques based on the three types of data; appendix b -DISC leadership model; appendix c - constraints for constructing some of the most common control charts; appendix d - basic formulas used in the construction of control charts; appendix e - general statistical formulas used in the pursuit of quality;appendix f - cost of quality; appendix g - a comparison of process improvement.