RECOMMENDED REFERENCE BOOKS

BASIC STATISTICS

Kiemele, Mark J., Schmidt, Stephen R., and Berdine, Ronald J., Basic Statistics: Tools for Continuous Improvement, 4th ed., Air Academy Press, 1997.
Moore, David S., The Basic Practice of Statistics, 2nd ed., W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000.

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Barker, Thomas B., Quality By Experimental Design, 2nd ed., Marcel Dekker Inc., 1994.
Schmidt, Stephen R. and Launsby, Robert G., Understanding Industrial Designed Experiments, 4th ed., Air Academy Press, 1998.
Taguchi, G. and Konishi, S., Taguchi Methods: Orthogonal Arrays and Linear Graphs, American Supplier Institute, Inc., 1987.

Advanced DOE

Box, George E. P., Hunter, William G., and Hunter, J. Stuart, Statistics for Experimenters, John Wiley & Sons, 1978.
Box, George E. P. and Draper, Norman R., Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces, John Wiley & Sons, 1987.
Hicks, Charles R., Fundamental Concepts in the Design of Experiments, 5th ed., CBS College Publishing, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1999.
Montgomery, Douglas C., Design and Analysis of Experiments, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

SIX SIGMA / KNOWLEDGE BASED MANAGEMENT

Adams, Murray, Kiemele, Mark J., Pollock, Lee, and Quan, Tom, Lean Six Sigma: A Tools Guide, Air Academy Press, 2003.
Schmidt, Stephen R., Kiemele, Mark J., and Berdine, Ronald J., Knowledge Based Management, Air Academy Press, 1996.
Chowdhury, Subir, The Power of Six Sigma, Dearborn Trade, 2001.
Joiner, Brian L., Fourth Generation Management, McGraw Hill, 1994.

BENCHMARKING

CHANGE MANAGEMENT, TEAMS, and the HUMAN SIDE

Blaha, Robert B., Beyond Survival: Creating Prosperity Through People, Air Academy Press, 1995.
Hutton, David W., The Change Agents’ Handbook, ASQC Quality Press, 1994.
Johnson, Spencer M.D., Who Moved My Cheese?, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998.

LEAN MANUFACURING AND LEAN THINKING

Adams, Murray, Kiemele, Mark J., Pollock, Lee, and Quan, Tom, Lean Six Sigma: A Tools Guide, Air Academy Press, 2003.
Goldratt, Eliyahu M., The Goal, Second Revised Edition, North River Press, 1992.
Sharma, Anand and Patricia E. Moody, The Perfect Engine, The Free Press, 2001.
Womack, James P. and Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos, The Machine that Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production, Rawson Associates, 1990.
Womack, James P. and Daniel T. Jones, Lean Thinking, Simon and Schuster, 1996.

QUALITY (GENERAL)

Brassard, Michael and Ritter, Diane, The Memory Jogger II (Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement and Effective Planning), Goal/QPC, 1994.
Deming, W. Edwards, Out of the Crisis, MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1986.
Ishikawa, Kaoru, Guide to Quality Control, Asian Productivity Organization, 1982.
Juran, J. M., Juran on Planning for Quality, The Free Press, 1988.
Walton, Mary, The Deming Management Method, The Putnam Publishing Group, 1986.

SPC

Grant, Eugene L. and Leavenworth, Richard S., Statistical Quality Control, McGraw Hill, 1988.
Wheeler, Donald J. and Chambers, David S., Understanding Statistical Process Control, 2nd ed., SPC Press, 1992.

FMEA

Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis – Reference Manual, 3rd ed., 2001.
IEC Standard Publication 812, Analysis Techniques for System Reliability – Procedure for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, 1985.
Stamatis, D. H., Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, ASQC Quality Press, 1995.

MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), Measurement Systems Analysis, 3rd ed., 2002.
Barrentine, Larry B., Concepts for R&R Studies, ASQ Press, 1991.

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT (QFD)

Cohen, Lou, Quality Function Deployment: How to Make QFD Work for You, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

ADVANCED STATISTICS/TOOLS

Anderson, T. W., An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Draper, Norman R. and Smith, H., Applied Regression Analysis, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Johnson, Richard A. and Wichern, Dean W., Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, 4th ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998.
Hocking, Ronald R., The Analysis of Linear Models, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1985.
Myers, Raymond H., Classical and Modern Regression with Applications, 2nd ed., Duxbury Press, 1990.
Neter, John, Wasserman, William, and Kutner, Michael, Applied Linear Statistical Models, 4th ed., Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1996.
Ostle, Bernard and Malone, Linda C., Statistics in Research, 4th ed., Iowa State University Press, 1987.
Seber, G. A. F., Linear Regression Analysis, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

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