TY - GEN AU - Arnold,Kenneth L. AU - Holler,Michael TI - Quality assurance: philosophies, methods, and technologies SN - 0028023331 U1 - 658.562 PY - 1994/// CY - [S.l.] PB - McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math KW - Environmental science, engineering & technology KW - Production & quality control management KW - Quality Assurance (QA) & Total Quality Management (TQM) KW - Business & Economics KW - Technology & Industrial Arts KW - Business/Economics KW - Business & Economics / Quality Control KW - Manufacturing KW - Quality Control KW - TECHNOLOGY / Manufacturing KW - Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing KW - Technology & Engineering / Mechanical KW - Total Quality Management KW - General KW - Quality assurance KW - Management Techniques: Professional N1 - Hardcover N2 - No prerequisites are required for this introductory quality assurance text. The book's three sections include an overview of the popular philsophies in quality assurance, including an explanation of the purposes of basic tools; a discussion of special inspection techniques, along with nondestructive examination methods; and a description of the statistics commonly used in quality control, with an emphasis on probability distributions. The authors also explain how and why certain statistical functions are used in specific situations. Each stand-alone section of Quality Assurance can be taught in the order preferred by the instructor UR - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0028023331/chopaconline-20 UR - http://www.chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azrev.pl?q=0028023331 ER -