Table of Contents

Introduction. What to Expect From This book. Chapter Overview. Traditional Control Charts. Statistical Hypothesis Testing. Control Chart Concepts. Theoretical and Empirical Control Charts. Nonnormal Distributions. Data Fitting and Verification. Control Chart Construction: Center Line, Control Limits, and Zone Tests. Process Capability Indices. Nested Normal Distributions. Calculation of the variance components. Tests for Goodness of Fit. Control Chart. Process capability indices. Confidence Intervals for Process Capability Indices. Confidence Intervals for Cp. Confidence Intervals for CPL and CPU. The Noncentral t Distribution. Confidence Intervals for Cpk. The Bivariate Noncentral t Distribution. Exact Confidence Intervals for the Gamma Distribution Cpk. Multivariate Normal Systems. T' Chart. Calculation of Nonconforming Fraction, and a Capability Index.

About the Author

William A. Levinson is the owner of Levinson Productivity Systems in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

! a useful addition to the library of any industrial statistician, process engineer, or quality engineer engaged in improving processes. It represents material that is not typically covered in conventional books on statistical process control. In particular, with its focus on nonnormal distributions, this text provides a measure of reality that many quality and manufacturing professionals have known for years--that not all process distributions follow the normal distribution. In that respect, this book is a refreshing addition to the literature and I highly recommend it. --Dean Neubauer, Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 43, No. 4, October 2011