H0794
Fundamentals of Quality Auditing

Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 144
Published: 1995
ISBN: 0873892402, 9780873892407

Price: $30.00

Finally, a comprehensive book that makes it easy to learn the best in quality auditing processes and techniques! Written in a clear and succinct fashion, author B. Scott Parsowith shows how organizations in both the industrial and service sectors can use quality auditing to evaluate and enhance their quality systems and continuous improvement efforts.

Supported by examples from the work of quality auditing gurus, Parsowith advocates self-audits as a positive means for improvement, not as a painful experience. A brief summary of sampling and general statistics is included to provide the reader with the basic concepts necessary for an accurate audit. Elements in the author's ideal quality system incorporate prominent features from the ISO 9000 standards, military, and nuclear specifications.

Benefits:

• Learn how auditing can improve your product or service.
• Identify and prepare for the phases of the auditing process.
• Create and manage a quality audit program.
• Understand how to use quality auditing elements to maintain a total quality system.
• Train others in the concepts of quality auditing.
• Great resource for the Certified Quality Auditor exam!

Contents:

• Audit Definitions and Applications
  
• Initiation and Preparation Phases
  
• Performance Phase of an Audit
  
• Reporting and Closure Phases
  
• Establishing the Framework for an Audit Program
  
• Statistical Process Control
  
• Statistical Sampling for Auditing
  
• Appendices: Statistical and Analytical Process Control Formulas, Quality Cost Analysis, Random Number Tables, Tables for Estimating Sample Size for Attribute Sampling, Tables for Discovery Sampling

A transparency master package is also available, see Item H0794A.