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Managing Our Way to Economic Success: Two Untapped Resources
(1986)American organizations could compete much better at home and abroad if they would learn to tap the potential information inherent in all processes and the creativity inherent in all employees. -
My First Trip to Japan
(1986-02)American visitors to Japan can learn much about what it takes to successfully implement quality improvement. -
Studies in Quality Improvement: Minimizing Transmitted Variation by Parameter Design
(1986-02)By properly designing products and taking the inevitable variation in components into account, engineers can minimize the amount of variation that ultimately shows up in finished products. -
Studies in Quality Improvement: Designing Environmental Regulations
(1986-02)There is a surprising similarity between what SPC provides for industries and the need for constructing sensitive, reliable standards for environmental regulations. -
Analysis of Fractional Factorials
(1986-06)Statistically designed experiments, particularly fractional factorial designs, are key tools to use when the object is to screen a large number of variables in order to identify those with the most influence. -
Drastic Changes for Western Management
(1986-06)This report is a compact summary of the most important points that Dr. W. Edwards Deming has been making about changes that must be made by American businesses if they are to be competitive. -
Eliminating Complexity from Work: Improving Productivity by Enhancing Quality
(1986-07)Increasing quality does not increase costs; in fact, it is poor quality that increases "complexity," which in turn increases cost and decreases productivity. -
A Process for Consulting for Improvement in Quality and Productivity
(1986-11)A process that consultants can use to improve their effectiveness. -
A Critical Look at Accumulation and Related Methods
(1986-11)Using accumulation analysis on ordered categorical data can often result in the detection of spurious effects. -
An Investigation of the Method of Accumulation Analysis
(1986-12)A discussion of Taguchi's method for analyzing ordered categorical data. -
The World Class Quality Company
(1986-12)Through a long history of consulting with companies around the world, William Golomski has found some themes common to companies capable of achieving world class quality. -
Analysis of Unreplicated Factorials Allowing for Possibly Faulty Observations
(1987)Inaccurate data points are particularly troublesome in the analysis of unreplicated factorial experiments, but new techniques allow investigators to overcome this difficulty. -
Further Details of an Analysis for Unreplicated Fractional Factorials
(1987-02)Some important implications and statistical details of Box and Meyer's formal approach to the analysis of unreplicated fractional factorial experiments. -
Identification of Active Factors in Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Experiments
(1987-02)How to pinpoint the most likely explanation for the results of unreplicated fractional factorial experiments. -
Total Quality Leadership vs. Management by Control
(1988-02)To survive in increasingly tough markets, top management in American companies will have to forsake their desire to "control" their employees, and instead learn what it means to provide Total Quality Leadership. -
Discriminant Upset Analysis
(1988-05)This report presents an application of discriminant analysis in setting rules for early warning indicators of process upsets in wastewater treatment plant operation. -
A Contour Nomogram for Designing Cusum Charts for Variance
(1989-02)A contour nomogram is given that helps in the design of cumulative sums charts for variance when the observations are normally distributed. -
Case Study: Experimental Design in a Pet Food Manufacturing Company
(1989-10)Experimentation in the complex world of industry and service organizations requires a deep understanding of the basic engineering concepts underlying the process being studied, as well as relevant technical and economic ... -
An Investigation of OA-based Methods for Parameter Design Optimization
(1990)There exists simpler alternatives for analyzing the results of a designed experiment than the orthogonal array methods proposed by Taguchi. -
Quality Engineering and Taguchi Methods: A Perspective
(1990)Robust product design and parameter design - methods to develop products that will perform well regardless of changes in uncontrollable environmental conditions or that are insensitive to component variation - are key ...