Quality Engineering in Production Systems

by Genichi Taguchi

Book Overview

This highly respected author team reflects upon Japanese methods of quality control of interest to industrial engineers and statisticians. The book covers on-line quality control through theory and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070628300
• ISBN13: 9780070628304
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

clearly written book

This is a clearly written book that presents Taguchi's ideas on quality control. Explained nicely is the loss function of Taguchi that has become so popular. Also, discussed in detail are models for online quality control, tolerancing, and preventive maintenance. (This book is not about Taguchi's celebrated work on design of experiments.) Although some theory appears to be heuristically derived, what needs to be pointed out here is that some of these methods have been used in Toyota! So there is a clear value to reading about them. One would think this would be mandatory reading for a graduate course on quality control, but instead the book has gone out of print! When I was a graduate student, I was really lucky to have a professor who used this book as a text book.