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Improving Almost Anything: Ideas and Essays, Revised Edition
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Masterworks in process improvement and quality technology by George Box and friendsGeorge Box has a unique ability to explain complex ideas simply and eloquently. This revised edition of his masterworks since 1982 clearly demonstrates the range of his wit and intellect. These fascinating readings represent the cornerstones in the theory and application of process improvement, product design, and process control. Readers will gain valuable insights into the fundamentals and philosophy of scientific method using statistics and how it can drive creativity and discovery.The book is divided into five key parts:* Part A, Some Thoughts on Quality Improvement, concerns the democratization of the scientific method and, in such papers as When Murphy SpeaksListen, advises managers to view operation of their processes as ongoing opportunities for improvement.* Part B, Design of Experiments for Process Improvement, illustrates the enormous advantages offered by experimental design in the pursuit of better products and processes.* Part C, Sequential Investigation and Discovery, shows how sequential assembly of designs allows the experimenter to match the difficulty of the problem with the effort needed to solve it.* Part D, Control, describes application of feedback control in the Statistical Process Control (SPC) environment. A simple graphical technique using BoxJenkins charts is set forth to appropriately adjust processes to target.* Part E, Variance Reduction and Robustness, demonstrates how the existence of more than one source of variation may be used to achieve products robust to the environment in which they must function and emphasizes the importance of error transmission and data transformation in producing robust assemblies.A Foreword by Dr. J. Stuart Hunter allows readers to gain insight into the workings of a remarkable mind and explains how these ideas can greatly catalyze their efforts in process improvement.
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