Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook, John Wiley & Sons

Genichi Taguchi, Subir Chowdhury, Yuin Wu
(1696 pages, ISBN: 0-471-41334-8, 2004)

CONTENT

SECTION 1. THEORY.

PART I: GENICHI TAGUCHI'S LATEST THINKING.

1. The 2nd Industrial Revolution and Information Technology.
2. Management for Quality Engineering.
3. Quality Engineering: Strategy in Research and Development.
4. Quality Engineering: The Taguchi Method.

PART II: QUALITY ENGINEERING: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.

5. Development of Quality Engineering in Japan.
6. History of Taguchi's Quality Engineering in the United States.

PART III: QUALITY LOSS FUNCTION.

7. Introduction to QLF.
8. Quality Loss Function for Different Quality Characteristics.
9. Specification Tolerancing.
10. Tolerance Design.

PART IV: SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO.

11. Introduction to the Signal-to-Noise Ratio.
12. SN Ratios for Continuous Variables.
13. SN Ratio for Classified Attributes.

PART V: ROBUST ENGINEERING.

14. System Design.
15. Parameter Design.
16. Tolerance Design.
17. Robust Technology Development.
18. Robust Engineering: A Manager's Perspective.
19. Implementation Strategies.

PART VI: MAHALANOBIS-TAGUCHI SYSTEM (MTS).

20. Mahalanobis-Taguchi System.

PART VII: SOFTWARE TESTING AND APPLICATION.

21. Application of Taguchi Methods to Software System Testing.

PART VIII: ON-LINE QUALITY ENGINEERING.

22. Tolerancing and Quality Level.
23. Feedback Control Based on Product Characteristics.
24. Feedback Control of a Process Condition.
25. Process Diagnosis and Adjustment.

PART IX: EXPERIMENTAL REGRESSION.

26. Parameter Estimation in Regression Equations.

PART X: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS.

27. Introduction to Design of Experiments.
28. Fundamentals of Data Analysis.
29. Introduction to Analysis of Variance.
30. One-Way Layout..
31. Decomposition to Components with Unit Degrees of Freedom.
32. Two-Way Layout.
33. Two-Way Layout with Decomposition.
34. Two-Way Layout with Repetition.
35. Introduction to Orthogonal Arrays.
36. Layout of Orthogonal Arrays Using Linear Graphs.
37. Incomplete Data.
38. Youden Squares.

SECTION 2. APPLICATION (CASE STUDIES).

PART I: ROBUST ENGINEERING: CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS.?
PART II: ROBUST ENGINEERING: ELECTRICAL APPLICATIONS.
PART III: ROBUST ENGINEERING: MECHANICAL APPLICATIONS.
PART IV: MAHALANOBIS—TAGUCHI SYSTEM (MTS).
PART V: SOFTWARE TESTING AND APPLICATION.?
PART VI: ON-LINE QUALITY?ENGINEERING.?
PART VII: MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 3. TAGUCHI'S METHODS VERSUS OTHER QUALITY PHILOSOPHIES.

Chapter 39. Quality Management in Japan
Chapter 40. Deming and Taguchi's Quality Engineering.?
Chapter 41. Enhancing Robust Design with the Aid of TRIZ and Axiomatic Design.
Chapter 42. Testing and Quality Engineering.
Chapter 43. Total Product Development and Taguchi's Quality Engineering.
Chapter 44. Role of Taguchi Methods in Design for Six Sigma.
Appendix A: Orthogonal Array and Linear Graphs. Tools for Quality Engineering.
Appendix B: Equations for On-Line?Process Control.?
Appendix C: Orthogonal Array and Linear Graphs for Chapter 38.