This book is the most comprehensive source book on statistical process control since Shewhart’s original. It is the definitive book, containing a wealth of information found nowhere else. Unlike books which only add layers of complication onto the subject, this book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the underlying theory of process behavior charts.

Topics include:

• the quality of limits for process behavior charts
• autocorrelated data and process behavior charts
• degrees of freedom for process behavior charts
• process behavior charts and chaos theory
• Cusum and EWMA techniques
• the role of the normal distribution
• the role of the central limit theorem
• precontrol and zone charts
• the analysis of means
• how to set manufacturing specifications
• using small amounts of data for limits
• the Shewhart catechism
• some differences between theory and practice