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Quality Management Books

Guts : The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler the World's Hottest Car Company - According to John McElroy of Automotive Industries Magazine "If you manage people, or if you are someone who aspires to the very top levels of management, this book is the equivalent of getting a guide, map and compass." Written buy Bob Lutz - the former number 2 man recently retired at Chrysler, this is one of the best management guides ever written. I recommend this book for all aspiring and practicing managers.

Management : Total Quality in a Global Environment - A good reference for designing a quality program to meet global requirements.

Quality Planning and Analysis : From Product Development Through Use - This is the new edition of one of the texts that defined the quality field.  Authored by Juran.

Measurement and Calibration Requirements for Quality Assurance to ISO 9000 - Provides detail program for meeting all published standard for your measurement assurance program.

Total Quality Management : Strategies and Techniques Proven at Today's Most Successful Companies (Portable MBA Series) - A good view of quality principles from a strategic business standpoint.

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Quality Statistics Books

Quality Control and Industrial Statistics - A good good on how to implement statistical methods in manufacturing.

Design of Experiments for Process Improvement and Quality Assurance (Engineers in Business Series) - Robert Brewer has written a book that allows you to understand statistical process control techniques without being a mathematician. He uses graphs were ever possible to point out how to tell if a process is working as it should. He also explains ideas like process capability, process improvement and analysis of variance of properties in a straightforward, readable and understandable fashion.

Introduction to Statistical Quality Control - This book in its 3rd edition is the leading book on understanding and implementing SPC.

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Reliability Books

Reliability Engineering Handbook - This book is written for the practicing engineer.  There are no proofs or derivations, just clear concise descriptions of how to apply reliability principles in real life.  The book is loaded with examples.  There is even a solutions manual with detailed solutions to ALL problems.  This is an excellent reference for ASQ's Certified Reliability Engineer's exam.

Weibull Analysis/Book and Disk - For practicing reliability engineers, a comprehensive guide to the Weibull distribution, which has wide applications to such tasks as troubleshooting, classifying failure types, and scheduling preventative maintenance and inspections. Describes parameter estimations, confidence intervals, goodness of fit, applications to multiple-censored data, and other aspects. A software package is included.

Accelerated Testing : Statistical Models, Test Plans, and Data Analyses - This is the definitive book for accelerated testing.  The book blends down to earth, real world examples with detailed mathematics.  The author is Wayne Nelson who has worked for General Electric and as a consultant for over 25 years.

Applied Reliability - This is a very good general reliability engineering book.  Like the Reliability Engineering bible, it is written in an easy to understand format.   This book goes beyond the purely statistical approach to reliability, and sharpens its real-world focus with coverage of the latest techniques for building quality and reliability into the design and manufacture of systems and components.

Reliability and Life Testing Handbook - This comprehensive two-volume set provides a wealth of information, procedures, tests, and illustrations helping engineers analyze time-to-failure data to ensure greater reliability in the products they design. Key features cover the determination of the MTBF, failure rate, and reliability of components and equipment during their useful life; innovative methods of tests of comparison for Weibull distributed data; and the unique "Suspended Items Testing" technique. The author is a renowned authority in reliability engineering.

Burn-In : An Engineering Approach to the Design and Analysis of Burn-In Procedures - This is the definitive book on burn-in.  Anyone interested in designing burn-in procedures should own this book, even though it is expensive.

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis : FMEA from Theory to Execution - An excellent FMEA reference.

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