The Quality Technician's Handbook

An ASQ best-seller, this volume covers a variety of the basic skills that contribute to ongoing quality at the technician level. It is now one of the primary reference books used by people taking the ASQ Certification Exams. The volume provides an introduction to quality, and examines total quality management, quality costs and audits, inspection systems and planning, reading engineering drawings, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, graphical inspection analysis, common measuring tools and measurements, plate inspection methods, special measuring equipment and techniques, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling plans, statistical process control and shop mathematics. For Quality Engineers, Quality Technicians and Inspectors.

Gary K. Griffith is President of Griffith Training, a productivity and quality consulting firm in Huntington Beach, California. Griffith conducts in-plant and public training courses and seminars on various engineering and quality related topics. He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advancement of Engineering (IAE).

During his 35 years of experience, Griffith has held a variety of manufacturing and quality positions, including inspection, inspection supervision, process control engineer/supervisor, quality engineer, quality manager, and process engineering manager. He has also taught courses in quality, engineering, mechanical design, and machine tool technology at El Camino College in Hawthorne, California. He is a firm believer in quality practices and the promotion of quality awareness in order to improve the status of American businesses.