54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellently written as is true of all of Montgomery's books, 27 Mar 2008
By Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Hardcover)
Doug Montgomery is an excellent instructor and author. I have taken short courses from him. He teaches statistics in the Engineering School at Arizona State. He is known for his books on engineering statistics and has written some excellent texts on design of experiments, response surface methodology, linear regression and quality control. He is well acquainted with the Deming philosophy for quality , Taguchi designs and the six sigma concept. This book on statistical quality control introduces control chart methods and all the other tools of statistical quality control with the expertise that few have.
The book is very accessible to statisticians engineers and others with good mathematical backgrounds but not necessarily strong trtaining in statistics. A virtue of Montgomery in all the books he has authored or coauthored is the clarity of presentation and the ability to reach a wide audience of non-statisticians.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A solid text on statistical quality control, 27 Nov 2002
By Walter Reade - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Hardcover)
The book gives an overview of the importance of quality management, the basics of statistics (variability, distributions, etc.), different methods of statistical process control, the use of control charts, capability analysis, design of experiments, process optimization, and sampling. I found all of the chapters informational and practical.
Montgomery does a great job of presenting the theory, giving examples, and helping the reader understand the big picture of various concepts. For example, Montgomery states that a "Pareto chart does not automatically identify the most important defects, but rather only those that occur most frequently," and then gives an example illustrating when this can be so. This is something that might have been overlooked if not pointed out to the reader.
While to book is rather current in introductory theory and practice, there are some relics from previous editions. For example, the inclusion of a random number table in the appendix is rather useless, since all modern calculators and spreadsheets have random number functions. This minor complaint aside, the book is solid and worth having.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An all-in-one text., 20 Aug 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Hardcover)
This is a rather comprehensive book on SQC. It benefits from a good introductory treatment of Design of Experiments, a subject sorely missing from most SQC texts. The arrangement of topics in the book is logical from both pedagogical and practical points of view, and the author's stress on improvement -- rather than control -- is the right one for the readers.