Statistical Process Control and Data Analytics, 8th Edition

Preface

Stop producing chaos – a cry from the heart! When the great guru of quality management and process improvement W. Edwards Deming died at the age of 93 at the end of 1993, the last words on his lips must have been ‘Management still doesn’t understand process variation.’ Despite all his efforts and those of his followers, including the authors of this book, we still find managers in manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, service and public sector organizations all over the world reacting (badly) to information and data. They often do not understand the processes they are managing, have no knowledge about the extent of their process variation or what causes it, and yet they try to ‘control’ processes by taking frequent action. This book ...