Statistical Control: By Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment [Hardcover]

George E. P. Box (Author), Alberto Luceño (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0471190462 | ISBN-13: 978-0471190462 | Edition: 1

A detailed, practical, accessible guide to efficient statistical control.

Efficient control is a key element in the improvement and maintenance of quality and productivity. This book shows the advantages of bringing together the more commonly used methods of statistical quality control with appropriate techniques of feedback adjustment. It uses recent research and practical experience to provide feedback methods of immediate use in the workplace.

Statistical Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment introduces a new coordinated approach to quality control. The authors' clear and cogent presentation uses extensive graphical explanation supplemented by numerous examples and computational tables. A helpful selection of problems and solutions further facilitates understanding.

Topics covered include:
* A fresh look at process monitoring
* Using feedback adjustment charts
* Minimizing the size of adjustments
* Feedback techniques that minimize costs of adjustment and sampling
* Detection of special causes with Cuscore Statistics
* Efficient monitoring of operating feedback systems
* The roles of models, optimization, and robustness
* A brief review of time series analysis.

Statistical Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment is important reading for quality control engineers and statisticians as well as graduate students in quality control, industrial engineering, and applied statistics.

Editorial Reviews

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"This book, like all the other works...by Professor George Box, serves a useful purpose, and is a significant addition to the literature on statistical practice...should be of considerable interest to those interested in these topics." (International Journal of Forecasting, No. 16, 2000)

"Box and Luceno have written an interesting and important book. The primary message is that statistical process control (SPC) and engineering process control (EPC) should be used together. ...it is the first book that provides an in-depth treatment of EPC in addition to containing material on SPC." (Journal of Quality Technology)

From the Publisher

This book is concerned with the development of simple, but powerful techniques of feedback adjustment suitable for understanding and use by statistical process control (SPC) practitioners and the work force. The overall intent of the book is to make major improvement in industrial efficiency.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 327 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (September 8, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471190462
• ISBN-13: 978-0471190462
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,413,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent text on the important topic of SPC, February 9, 2008

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Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" (Holland PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statistical Control: By Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment (Hardcover)

Professor George Box is a world renowned statistician, one of the greatest applied statisticians of the 20th Century. He has made fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of statistical methods. He is a wonderful lecturer and writer and can write on many levels. He has co-authored many classic books in statistics including texts on times series analysis and control, Bayesian methods, experimental designs, response surfaces and evolutionary operation. His work in design, response surface methods, time series and evolutionary operation were first motivated by his work in the chemical industry.

The text with Jenkins on time series analysis and control is a classic and had a major impact on the application of time series methods in business and industry. The systematic approach that they advocated was quickly referred to as the Box-Jenkins methodology. Although time series forecasting applications were well accepted by industry, the portion of the text demonstrating application to feedback control systems was largely ignored.

The 1980s and 1990s saw a resurgence of application of statistical process control in manufacturing. Basic Statistical Process Control (SPC) deals with control charts that assume independent identically distributed observations when "the system is under control". This is the basic theme for the Shewhart control charts and the cumulative sum charts that are standard in basic SPC. Hahn and Tucker at General Electric (among others) recognized that the approach could be generalized to dependent stationary processes using the Box-Jenkins methodology. In this text Box and Luceno describe this methodology and the recent results in the context of monitoring for process control and the incorporation of feedback adjustments to the process when the process goes out of control. Basically, they have taken the ideas on feedback control systems from the Box and Jenkins book and found applications to the control of manufacturing processes.

This is very useful stuff and is certainly worth knowing about. However if the reader is looking for a good introduction to standard SPC methods this is not the book he/she wants.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book give you the best ; Theory, and practical too., December 22, 1999

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Sentekin Can (St.Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statistical Control: By Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment (Hardcover)

George Box and Alberto Luceno give you the best advice you need for Engineering Process Control (EPC) and SPC theory in this 300 page book. New methods, such as Cusum, and EWMA are also explained. Enough knowledge for a practician and more if you want in detail. They don't bore you by deriving equations you care less. I am an engineer in manufacturing and know when I need to study an equation or accept it as correct. In year 2000's, SPC and EPC will be emphasized in manufacturing even more than ever. Engineering process control has benefited from SPC in an exponentially growing rate. My motto is "SPC is the blood test of the manufacturing process control - S. Can". I recommend this book to all practicians of EPC.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a gem!, April 8, 2002

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Kambiz Homayounfar (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statistical Control: By Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment (Hardcover)

The techniques described in this book have applications well beyond process or parts industries. I'm an engineer in mobile communications (an industry that desperately needs quality improvement) and I'm using SPC methods to eliminate choppy voice and dropped calls using feedback mechanisms between cell phones and base-stations. This book has provided me with a comprehensive framework for real-time network quality management. Don't be put off by its somewhat quaint language: this book gives real solutions to modern real-time signal processing problems.