Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control (3^rd Ed.)

Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control, Third Edition presents the state of the art in the methodology of sampling while integrating both theory and best practices. It discusses various standards, including those from the ISO, MIL-STD and ASTM and explores how to set quality levels. The book also includes problems at the end of each chapter with solutions. This edition improves upon theprevious editions especially in the areas of software applications and compliance sampling plans.

New to the Third Edition:

• Numerous Microsoft Excel templates to address sampling plans are used.
• Commercial software applications are discussed at the end of many chapters.
• Discussion of quick switching systems has been expanded to account for the considerable recent activity in this area.
• Added discussion of zero acceptance number chained quick switching systems.

Introduction/Probability and the Operating Characteristic Curve/Probability Functions/Concepts and Terminology/Single Sampling

by Attributes/Double and Multiple Sampling by Attributes/Sequential Sampling by Attributes/Variables Sampling for Process

Parameter/Bulk Sampling/Sampling by Variables for Proportion Nonconforming/Attributes Sampling Schemes/Variables Sampling

Schemes/Special Plans and Procedures/Series of Lots: Rectification Schemes/Continuous Sampling Plans/Cumulative Results

Plans/Compliance Sampling/Reliability Sampling/Administration of Acceptance Sampling/Appendix/Answers to Problems/Author

Index/Subject Index

Dr. Edward G. Schilling was a professor emeritus of statistics at the Center for Quality and Applied Statistics, at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he had been the director of the center and the chair of the Graduate Statistics Department.

Before joining RIT, he was the manager of the lighting quality operation for the Lighting Business Group of General Electric Company. He received his BA and MBA from State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, and his MS and PhD in statistics from Rutgers University. He had been on the faculties of SUNY at Buffalo, Rutgers University, and Case Western Reserve University. He had extensive industrial experience in quality engineering at Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the Carborundum Co., and in statistical consulting and quality management at General Electric. Dr. Schilling was a fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the American Statistical Association (ASA), and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). He was also a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Economic Association. He was registered as a professional engineer in California and certified by ASQ as a quality and a reliability engineer. He served as the founding series editor for the Marcel Dekker series of books on quality and reliability, and published extensively in the field of quality
control and statistics.

Dr. Schilling was the Shewhart Medalist in 1983, the recipient of the E.L. Grant Award in 1999, the Freund–Marquardt Medal in 2005, and the Distinguished Service Medal in 2002; he was the first person to receive the Brumbaugh Award four times from the ASQ. He was also the recipient of the Ellis R. Ott Award in 1984 for his contributions to quality management from the Metropolitan New York Section of that society and was honored by being invited to present the 1986 W.J. Youden Memorial Address at the Joint ASQ/ASA Annual Fall Technical Conference. He was the recipie