Statistical Practice In Business And Industry

This book covers all the latest advances, as well as more established methods, in the application of statistical and optimisation methods within modern industry. These include applications from a range of industries that include micro-electronics, chemical, automotive, engineering, food, component assembly, household goods and plastics. Methods range from basic graphical approaches to generalised modelling, from designed experiments to process control. Solutions cover produce and process design, through manufacture to packaging and delivery, from single responses to multivariate problems.

The Editors, Shirley Coleman, Tony Greenfield, Dave Stewardson, and Douglas C. Montgomery, are section leaders in ENBIS — European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics — an organisation for the encouragement of exchange of ideas and methods of best practice between academia and industry across different countries.

Contents


Contributors


Preface


1 Introduction


Shirley Coleman, Tony Fouweather and Dave Stewardson


2 A History of Industrial Statistics


Jeroen de Mast


3 Statistical Consultancy


3.I A Statistician in Industry


Ronald J.M.M. Does and Albert Trip


3.II Black Belt Types


Roland Caulcutt


3.III Statistical Consulstancy Units at Universities


Ronald J.M.M. Does and András Zempléni


3.IV Consultancy? . . . What's in It for Me?


Roland Caulcutt


4 The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture


Ron S. Kenett, Anne De Frenne, Xavier Tort-Martorell and Chris McCollin


5 Management Statistics


Irena Ograjenšek and Ron S. Kenett


6 Service Quality


Irena Ograjenšek


7 Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments


Timothy J. Robinson


8 Data Mining


Paola Cerchiello, Silvia Figini and Paolo Giudici


9 Using Statistical Process Control for Continual Improvement


Donald J. Wheeler and Øystein Evandt


10 Advanced Statistical Process Control


Murat Kulahci and Connie Borror


11 Measurement System Analysis


Giulio Barbato, Grazia Vicario and Raffaello Levi


12 Safety and Reliability


12.I Reliability Engineering: The State of the Art


Chris McCollin


12.II Stochastics for the Quality Movement: An Integrated Approach to Reliability and Safety


M. F. Ramalhoto


13 Multivariate and Multiscale Data Analysis


Marco P. Seabra dos Reis and Pedro M. Saraiva


14 Simulation in Industrial Statistics


David R´ıos Insua, Jorge Muruzabal, Jes´us Palomo, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Julio Holgado and Ra´ul Moreno


15 Communication


Tony Greenfield and John Logsdon Index