41 Best Books on Quality Engineering

“Quality Engineering Using Robust Design” Book Review: The book also explains structuring projects to achieve rapid completion, research and development phase to ensure high quality products, orthogonal arrays and their construction, computer-aided robust design techniques, dynamic systems design methods and many more. This book can be referred to by those who are taking an introduction to Quality Engineering Using Robust Design.

“Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance and Quantifiable Improvement” Book Review: This book is designed for students of software engineering, computer science, information systems and electrical engineering. It can also be helpful to software and computer professionals and engineers. It provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. It introduces a solid foundation of key concepts and practices. It offers in-depth knowledge of software testing for software quality, process improvement and inspection.

“A First Course in Quality Engineering: Integrating Statistical and Management Methods of Quality, Second Edition” Book Review: The book is suitable for professionals and for candidates preparing for the exams to qualify as certified quality engineers. It consists of detailed information of the management and statistical tools needed. It illustrates the uses of quality methods with suitable examples for better understanding. It covers all fundamental concepts of probability and statistics.

“Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement” Book Review: The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of management, technology and engineering courses. It is useful for practitioners and professionals related to expanding their knowledge of statistical quality control, assurance and product design. The book includes topics like new tropical coverage on risk-adjustment, capacity indices and model building using regression. It also includes updated examples and exercises that enhance understanding of concepts.

“QUALITY RELIABILITY MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT: Fundamental concepts on Quality Reliability Maintenance Engineering Management” Book Review: The book is for students of undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D scholars. It is useful to students of industrial engineering, production engineers and other engineering fields.

“Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering” Book Review: This book provides proven Taguchi strategies for creating the highest quality products. It consists of the latest and updated ways of using the difficult Taguchi methodology for engineering quality control.

“Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective” Book Review: The book contains issues and problems faced by 7 continents and 15 countries. It explains about the history and background of quality assurance in higher education and engineering education.

“Managing and Engineering in Complex Situations (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)” Book Review: The book is aimed at exploring pathology through a series of papers. This book helps users to tackle difficult situations.

“Introduction to Statistical Quality Control” Book Review: The textbook provides a thorough understanding of statistical control and statistical methods for quality control. The concepts are explained in a clear, concise manner and simple language. The coverage of the book includes Modelling Process Quality, Inferences about Process Quality, Process and Measurement System Capability Analysis, DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) Process, monitoring and controlling statistical processes, ways to conduct quality improvement projects and analysis etc. The book is supplemented with design experiments, numerous examples, charts and diagrams as well as appendices and tables depicting important information.

“Statistical Quality Control” Book Review: This textbook is divided into two parts. Part one deals with various aspects of Statistical Process Control. The textbook discusses the various concepts as well as fundamental principles of statistical quality control. This includes Why the Control Chart Works; Some Statistical Concepts, Directions for Simple X and R Charts, Some Fundamentals of the Theory of Probability etc. The book covers topics such as experimental design, acceptance sampling, managerial and organizational aspects of quality control, consolidations and profitability etc. It also addresses the recent trends in the field. The book is packed with a number of examples, problems and charts for better understanding and exhaustive practice. The book can benefit students in industrial engineering, operations research and statistics, and related fields. This part covers topics such as Some Fundamental Concepts in Acceptance Sampling, The Dodge-Romig System for Lot-by-Lot Acceptance Sampling by Attributes, Acceptance Sampling by Variables, and Acceptance Inspection for Continuous Production etc. The textual matter is sufficiently supported by various tables and graphs.

“Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance and Quantifiable Improvement” Book Review: This textbook addresses Software quality assurance (SQA) systems and its significance in software and electronics industries. The textbook is organized in four parts: Overview and Basics, Software Testing , Quality Assurance Beyond Testing and Quantifiable Quality Improvement. The coverage of the book includes a total of twenty two chapters. Some of the chapters present in the book are: Software Reliability Engineering, Risk Identification for Quantifiable Quality Improvement, Defect Classification and Analysis, Fault Tolerance and Failure Containment, Input Domain Partitioning and Boundary Testing etc. Each chapter is supplemented with problems, short case studies and extended discussions. The book can benefit students as well as industry professionals.

“Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice” Book Review: The coverage of the book includes software quality assurance (SQA), SQA processes and metrics, the role of testing, basics of program testing, theory of program testing; code review, unit testing, test execution test generation from control flow graphs, data flow graphs, and program domains, system integration, system testing, test automation, acceptance testing; quality metrics and reliability models etc. Each chapter concludes with a summary, highlighting the key concepts, references for further reading and a review of the literature. The book can help readers get a real insight into these concepts and dig deeper into the fundamentals.

“Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance” Book Review: The book deals with quality assurance in pharmaceuticals. The coverage of the book includes Personnel Surrounding Building and Facilities, Quality Management, Equipment Materials Management, Pharmaceutical Validation, Manufacturing Operations and Control, Documentation and Records, Post Operational Activities Site and Plant Security, Safety and Environmental Protection, Sterile Pharmaceutical Productions etc. Each chapter contains a “Document and Formats” section which illustrates the format for various documentations and certifications.

“Software Quality Assurance, Testing and Metrics” Book Review: The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of software quality assurance and testing. The text is provided in a clear and easy to understand the format. The coverage of the book includes Software Quality Assurance, Introduction to Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Non-Functional, Acceptance and Regression Testing, Reviews, Inspections and Walkthroughs, Cloud Testing, Metrics for Software Quality, The Management, White Box (Structural-Based) Testing, Test Automation, Tools for Quality Improvement, Testing of OO Software and Agile Testing etc.

“Software Quality Assurance: Principles and Practice” Book Review: The textbook provides a practical approach on Software Quality Assurance. It sheds light on current methodologies and practical examples in quality assurance practices. The coverage spans over topics such as Managing software quality in an organization, Planning for software quality assurance, Product quality and process quality, Software configuration management, Software CMM and other process improvement models, Software measurement and metrics, Walkthroughs and inspections, Careers in quality, Software testing etc. The textbook can serve as ready reference for students as well as professionals in Information Technology.

“Statistical Quality Control: A Modern Introduction International Student Version” Book Review: This book presents the statistical methods for quality control.It explains how to apply state–of–the–art techniques for statistical process monitoring and control, design experiments for process characterization and optimization, conduct process robustness studies, and implement quality management techniques.It contains Numerous new examples, exercises, problems, and techniques. It will give you an excellent framework to use in conducting quality improvement projects.

“Quality Assurance in LIS Education” Book Review: The book explains quality assurance systems of Library and Information Science(LIS) education in a variety of countries and regions, including Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe. The book also covers globalization and its impact on LIS, global standard of quality assurance systems for LIS practitioners and also provides a standard and ranks specific systems and educational programs worldwide. The book can be referred to by those who are studying about Quality Assurance in LIS education.

“Quality Assessment of Textiles: Damage Detection by Microscopy” Book Review: Evaluating the nature of materials utilizing material microscopy stays one of the significant instruments for perpetual interaction improvement in the fiber, material and clothing ventures. The level of worldwide interlinking in the material creating and completing businesses and their business sectors requests sincerely characterized and reproducible techniques for identifying harm or deformities at all interaction stages. This book – Quality Assessment of Textiles – Damage Detection by Microsco-py – has meanwhile settled itself so well as “the Mahall” in exploration organization labs researching surrenders, in colleges and schools, in the preparation of material physicists and technologists, and in the business and the retail exchange, that it has gotten important to draw out another release. This release has been changed and enhanced by Mr. Mahall and his succes-sor Ms. Irmhild Goebel and her staff. Cognis, as the replacement association proceeding with the material business of the for-mer Textile Technology branch of Henkel, is satisfied to make this new edi-tion accessible to trained professionals, to understudies and to some other intrigued perusers.

Book Review: This book demonstrates profitability achievement through quality. All the principles are put into practice and many success factors are completely explored. The book also demonstrates quality control building into many operations phase like product and service development, production engineering, marketing, distribution, sales, customer service and many more. The book also contains discussion on quality control significance on corporate profitability and also includes management principles to achieve total quality orientation.

Book Review: This book is useful for readers who deal with statistical treatment for reliability assurance. The book contains chapters on product reliability, equipment survival, reliability prediction methods and reliability testing. This book is very useful for people involved in reliability engineering of products. The book also focuses on statistical mathematics and contains chapters devoted to maintenance and integrated logistic support. This is a very good reference book for students of electrical engineering.

“SPC, Concepts, Methodologies and Tools” Book Review: The book is a clear and precise text presenting all the elements that enable a day-to-day application of the technique of SPC. The book starts with a description of the close correlation between quality, competitiveness and the necessity of adopting methodologies and preventive techniques to implement continuous improvement cycles. Moving forward to the actual technique, the related concepts, methodology and the tools are discussed. To give better practical knowledge and relatable content to the readers many examples of the given techniques are mentioned. The book will be useful for courses in Statistical Process Control/Total Quality Management (TQM) and for practicing engineers.

“Applications of Quality Control in the Service Industries” Book Review: The book highlights the role of quality control in the industrial sector. All the key concepts, principles, and characteristics used in service industries are described in this book. The techniques and methodologies of quality control are mentioned in this text. The applications of control in industries are described in detail. The book also compares the principles of control with successful applications of control in service industries. It will be useful for industrial statisticians and quality practitioners.

“Analysis of Reliability and Quality Control: Fracture Mechanics 1 (Iste)” Book Review: The laws of statistical distributions experienced in various scientific and technical fields are mentioned in this book. These laws are necessary for understanding probability behavior and mechanical structures of components. The book features tests of adequacy like the Pearson (x2) test, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test, and a few more relevant tests. The content of this book will help the readers in decision-making. The later chapters present practical examples using mathematics as a tool. The book will be useful for technicians, engineers, designers, students, and teachers working in the fields of engineering and vocational education.

“Multivariate Quality Control: Theory and Applications” Book Review: The book is an excellent blend of theoretical and practical analysis of multivariate data. The key concepts and techniques used in ‘Multivariate Quality Control’ are explained in the book. All the technologies related to multivariate quality control techniques and the applications of these technologies are highlighted in this piece of writing. Many case studies, computer graphic analysis, and multivariate profile charts are included in this book. The book can be referred by advanced graduate students and seasoned professionals.

“Modern Industrial Statistics: The Design and Control of Quality and Reliability” Book Review: The book is basically for graduate and post-graduate students in the areas of statistical quality and engineering, but is equally important for industrial statisticians, researchers and practitioners of preceding fields. It contains vast theory and also introduces readers with practical approaches in industrial statistics. The topics like computer-intensive data analysis, acceptance sampling, univariate and multivariate statistical process control, design of experiments, quality by design, and reliability using classical and Bayesian methods are discussed in this book. For better understanding of the readers many real-life case studies and exercises are included in this book.

“Reliability and Availability of Quality Control Based on Wavelet Computer Vision” Book Review: The book is based on the reliability and availability of visual quality control systems. The wavelet-based analysis is discussed thoroughly. All the experimental results and the parameters related to sensitivity of visual quality control and noise are mentioned in this book. The later section of the book presents potential alternative approaches and examines system availability and reliability models. Many problems as well as calculations of their solutions are included in this book.

“Total Quality Control” Book Review: This textbook covers the system of integrating various aspects in an organization like quality development and maintenance. The book encompasses the methods to effectively control marketing, engineering, production and service in an organization in an economical way while ensuring customer satisfaction. The book rather serves as a complete handbook for this purpose. Readers can gain useful insights on the subject which can go a long way in their careers.

“Quality Planning and Analysis” Book Review: This textbook can serve as a ready reference for all those who are involved with quality of products, services, and processes. The book is organized into several groups like “The Managerial Group”, “The Functional Group”, “The Industry Group” etc. The readers can therefore readily find what they are looking for under the relevant groups. The book covers a long list of topics ranging from The Quality Planning, The Quality Control, The Quality Improvement Process, Process Management, Quality and Income, Quality and Costs etc to various statistical methods such as Basic Statistical, Statistical Process Control, Acceptance Sampling, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Reliability Concepts and Data Analysis etc.

“Quality Planning and Analysis: From Product Development through Use” Book Review: This book elaborates on quality with extensive discussions on contemporary developments in the field. The book can benefit readers by providing a systems view of quality. It succinctly sums up the concepts of various areas such as statistical, managerial and behavioral which contributes to overall quality. The text discusses concepts of quality planning and control as well. It also focuses on real world applications through well illustrated examples. Students and professionals in both the manufacturing and service sectors can benefit from this book.

“Enterprise Resource Planning: Concepts and Practice” Book Review: This book focuses on the Indian ERP packages and is meant for consultants and students to improve the strategic areas required to run IT companies. The book revolves around various areas involving ERP such as business modeling, business engineering, ERP implementation, ERP marketing and domain etc. The text very well includes diversified case studies for real world applications of the concepts explained in the book. Selected problems and solutions on all the topics covered have been added at the end of the book to facilitate students and academicians for better practice and grip.

“Juran’s Quality Planning and Analysis for Enterprise Quality” Book Review: This book covers the areas of quality control and management. The book has been divided into four broad categories namely Foundation, Managerial Concepts, Functional Applications and Statistical Techniques. Each part covers various concepts of planning and analysis with chapters on process management, strategic quality management, operations in manufacturing and service sectors, statistics and probability etc. The book begins with discussing the basic concepts on quality and its history. Suggestions for supplementary readings, materials and websites are mentioned at the end of each chapter for further study of the respective topic. Ample number of problems provided after each chapter ensures that the reader has acquired proper grip on that concept before moving on to the next chapter.

“Schaum’s Outline of Operations Management (Schaum’s Outline Series)” Book Review: This book covers various aspects of operations management such as operations decision making, forecasting, financial analysis for operations, product design, quality control, process planning and analysis etc. Every topic is presented in succinct format for efficient learning. It contains abundant number solved problems to help readers understand the method of problem solving as well as sample problems for extra practice. The solutions are presented in step by step manner with clear and simple explanations to help readers grasp the concepts.

“Quality Assurance of Agent-Based and Self-Managed Systems” Book Review: This book is written for the postgraduate students of computer science engineering. It will also be helpful for the students researching in the field of intelligent agents. It discusses the topics of the development of self-adapting and self healing applications. It covers the basic principles of agent technology. It focuses on the main quality issues of software development and gives examples of agent evaluation. It also describes the quality properties of multi-agent systems. This book has many illustrations and tables to explain the concept in a better way. It also has many real-life test cases to further simplify the concepts.