QSM 754: Six Sigma Applications

Bibliography

1. Bibliography
The following books and reference articles should provide the student with the opportunity to
further explore the body of knowledge to a depth beyond that presented during the course.

Reference Comments

Box, George E.P., William G. Hunter, and J. Classic text for complete summary of
Stuart Hunter. Statistics for Experimenters. New statistical testing techniques.
York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.

Breyfogle, Forrest W. Implementing Six Sigma. Complete reference for advanced Six
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999 Sigma statistical tools. Uses Minitab
for examples.

Brown, Mark Graham. Keeping Score. New York: Concise reference for designing a
Quality Resources, 1996. balanced scorecard metric system.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Comprehensive picture of how

Research Papers. New York: The Modern research papers are created.
Language Association of America, 1995.

Goldratt, Eliyahu M. The Goal. Great Barrington: Clear explanation of concepts of

North River Press, 1992. Theory of Constraints in a novel
reading format.

Grant, Eugene L.and Richard S. Leavenworth. Classic text for Control Charting
Statistical Quality Control. New York: McGraw- techniques.
Hill, 1988.

Hicks, Charles R. Fundamental Concepts in the Classic book on Design of

Design of Experiments. New York: Oxford Experiments for the advanced
University Press, 1993. practitioner.

Huff, Darrell. How to Lie with Statistics. New Good reference for graphical bias
York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1954. and data misrepresentation. Dated
examples but points are still valid.

Juran, J.M. and Frank M. Gryna. Quality Excellent concise summary of

Planning and Analysis. New York. McGraw-Hill, statistical tools for analyzing data.
1993.

Juran's Quality Control Handbook. Ed. J. M. Comprehensive reference in all

Juran. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. aspects of Quality Tools.

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Harry, Mikel J. The Vision of Six Sigma. Phoenix: Presentation slides used for training
Sigma Publishing Company, 1994. by Mikel Harry.

Kiemele, Mark J. Basic Statistics. Colorado Excellent general statistics text with
Springs: Air Academy Press, 1993. a large number of case studies.

Kume, Hitoshi. Statistical Methods for Quality Excellent concise summary of basic
Improvement. Tokyo: The Association for statistical tools and techniques.
Overseas Technical Scholarship, 1985.

Launsby, Robert G. Straight Talk on Designing Covers design of experiments

Experiments. Colorado Springs: Launsby techniques including Taguchi. Uses
Consulting, 1995. proprietary software.

Luftig, Jeffrey and Victoria S. Jordan. Design of Design of Experiments

Experiments in Quality Engineering. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Maguire, Miles. "Cowboy Quality." Quality Interview with Mikel Harry on Six
Progress October 1999: 27-34. Sigma

Monden, Yashuhiro. Toyota Production System. Basic concepts in Lean

Atlanta: Industrial Engineering and Management Manufacturing techniques developed
Press, 1983. at Toyota.

Neave, Henry R. The Deming Dimension. Clear summary of the teachings of

Knoxville: SPC Press, 1990. W. Edwards Deming including detail
on red bead and funnel experiments.

Ryan, Thomas P. Statistical Methods for Quality Basic concepts in Statistics &
Improvement. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Probability, Hypothesis Testing,
Inc., 2000. Control Charting and Design of
Experiments.

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Schmidt, Stephen R. Understanding Industrial Design of Experiments and a large

Designed Experiments. Colorado Springs: Air number of case studies
Academy Press, 1998.

Swartz, James B. The Hunters and the Hunted. Teaches a number of Lean
Portland: Productivity Press, 1994. Enterprise concepts in an easy
reading story format.

The Memory Jogger. Methuen: Goal/QPC, 1988. Pocket guide to basic 7 tools.

Wheeler, Donald J. and David S. Chambers. Good basic text for Control Charting.
Understanding Statistical Process Control.
Knoxville: SPC Press, 1992.

Wheeler, Donald J. Understanding Variation. Lays excellent groundwork for

Knoxville: SPC Press, 1992. Control Chart fundamentals.

Womack, James P. and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Case studies for lean principles and
Thinking. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996 techniques

Womack, James P. The Machine that Changed Story of the rise of Lean Production
the World. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, techniques in the automotive
1991. industry.

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