Includes index

Contents: The Quality system: Introduction to quality -- Total quality in organizations -- Philosophies and frameworks -- The Management system: Focusing on customers -- Leadership and strategic planning -- Human resource practices -- Process management -- Performance measurement and strategic information management -- Building and sustaining total quality organizations -- Six sigma and the technical system: Principles of six sigma -- Statistical thinking and applications -- Design for six sigma -- Tools for process improvement -- Statistical process control -- Appendix A: areas for the standard normal distribution -- Appendix B: factors for control charts -- Appendix C: random digits -- Appendix D: binomial probabilities -- Appendix E: poisson probabilities -- Appendix F: values of e-iN -- Solutions to selected problems.