Quality Technician's Handbook, The (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

by Gary K. Griffith (Author)

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Product Description
An ASQ best-seller, this volume covers a variety of the basic skills that contribute to ongoing quality at the technician level. It is now one of the primary reference books used by people taking the ASQ Certification Exams. The volume provides an introduction to quality, and examines total quality management, quality costs and audits, inspection systems and planning, reading engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, graphical inspection analysis, common measuring tools and measurements, plate inspection methods, special measuring equipment and techniques, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling plans, statistical process control and shop mathematics. For Quality Engineers, Quality Technicians and Inspectors.

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An ASQC best-seller, -- this text covers a variety of the basic skills that contribute to outgoing quality at the technician level. Operators, machinists, inspectors, quality technicians and associate quality engineers will find its coverage of quality assurance, quality control and inspection topics useful as either a learning aid or reference. Also, The Quality Technician's Handbook is now one of the primary reference books used by people taking the ASQC Certification Exams. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 603 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (July 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130416797
• ISBN-13: 978-0130416797
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #259,800 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Purchase!, March 31, 2007

By	T. Nelson (West Tennessee) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Do not purchase this book. Buy the 4th edition instead! The verbaige is the same in both editions - almost, if not, identical. The 5th edition changes many of the figures out though - yet leaves the text reflecting the previous figure. If you try to understand by following the figures, your are lost. In many places the referenced dimensions in text are no longer in the figure as they were swapped out. The verbaige is good work. But for those who really want to understand - get the 4th edition. I compared both so that I could learn what I needed to understand. This issue occurs throughout the book, but is really bad throughout the last half of the book - where the subjects get more intense. I was severely disappointed that such distinguished reviewers (listed in preface) could miss so much.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information. Need answers to questions in book., November 19, 1999

By	Cathy Langlois (Montrose, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Quality Technician's Handbook (4th Edition) (Hardcover)

The book has excellent information. It would be more valuable with the answers to chapter questions. Are they available?

5.0 out of 5 stars The Gold Standard, September 28, 2008

By	Russell J. Johnson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been a Quality professional for 25 years. If there is one thing I have learned is that high caliber training is the difference between a lean, effective Quality Management System and one that is costly and ineffective. I have been using Griffith's, "Quality Technician's Handbook" since the first edition. I have found no other textbook as complete or targeted to the quality practitioner as this one.