Statistical Practice in Business And Industry
by Coleman, Shirley; Greenfield, Tony; Stewardson, Dave; Montgomery, Douglas C.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-04-21
Publisher(s): WILEY
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Summary
This book covers all the latest advances, as well as more established methods, in the application of statistical and optimisation methods within modern industry. These include applications from a range of industries that include micro-electronics, chemical, automotive, engineering, food, component assembly, household goods and plastics. Methods range from basic graphical approaches to generalised modelling, from designed experiments to process control. Solutions cover produce and process design, through manufacture to packaging and delivery, from single responses to multivariate problems.
Author Biography
The Editors, Shirley Coleman, Tony Greenfield, Dave Stewardson, and Douglas C. Montgomery, are section leaders in ENBIS — European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics — an organisation for the encouragement of exchange of ideas and methods of best practice between academia and industry across different countries.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A History of Industrial Statistics | p. 15 |
| Statistical Consultancy | p. 29 |
| A Statistician in Industry | p. 29 |
| Black Belt Types | p. 34 |
| Statistical Consultancy Units at Universities | p. 41 |
| Consultancy? ... What's in It for Me? | p. 53 |
| The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture | p. 61 |
| Management Statistics | p. 97 |
| Service Quality | p. 117 |
| Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments | p. 137 |
| Data Mining | p. 163 |
| Using Statistical Process Control for Continual Improvement | p. 185 |
| Advanced Statistical Process Control | p. 211 |
| Measurement System Analysis | p. 239 |
| Safety and Reliability | p. 307 |
| Reliability Engineering: The State of the Art | p. 307 |
| Stochastics for the Quality Movement: An Integrated Approach to Reliability and Safety | p. 317 |
| Multivariate and Multiscale Data Analysis | p. 337 |
| Simulation in Industrial Statistics | p. 371 |
| Communication | p. 401 |
| Index | p. 429 |
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