Applied Acceptance Sampling: Plans, Procedures, and Principles

Written in clear and understandable terms, this handbook provides a modern and applied approach to the subject of acceptance sampling and inspection. Loaded with numerous examples and illustrations to guide you, The Handbook of Applied Acceptance Sampling: Plans, Procedures, and Principles helps to make many of the mainstream principles and evaluation tools of this quality method straightforward and easy to understand.

The text is written in a clear, lucid style with numerous examples and illustrations to help guide the reader, student or practitioner in these quality techniques, and to serve as a resource for current knowledge on the subject. Using spreadsheet analyzes and their applications for common acceptance sampling problems (complete with the actual formulas used in the principal cells), the book makes many of the principles and evaluations of acceptance sampling understandable and easy to apply using Excel® spreadsheet software. The bonus CD-ROM is loaded with appendices, problem exercises & solutions, tables, and graphs from the text that can be used beyond the applications in the book – making it an excellent practical guide for the student or quality professional.

Dr. Kenneth S. Stephens, PE has a Ph.D. and a MS degree in Applied and Mathematical Statistics from Rutgers University; and a BS in Industrial Science from LeTourneau Technical Institute. His professional experience includes eight years with Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta GA, where he has been teaching undergraduate Industrial Engineering Technology courses, and on-campus and Internet courses in the Masters Degree in Quality Assurance Program (MSQA.edu). He spent eighteen years with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on assignments in Vienna, China, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Turkey, Nigeria, and Thailand. Ken spent five years with the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Lecturer in Industrial & Systems Engineering and as a Research Consultant in the Engineering Experiment Station. He also served as Professor and Head of Mathematics at LeTourneau College for four years. Ken spent twelve years with the Western Electric Company as Research Leader, Systems Engineering, at Princeton, and Department Chief and Engineer of Quality Control & Reliability Engineering at the Allentown Works. Ken Stephens is a CQE and fellow of ASQ.