Statistical Quality Control HandbookWestern Electric
Statistical Quality Control Handbook
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…with some marvelous preserved historical documents. For example The Principles of Electron Tubes which describes traveling wave tubes, klystrons, and other devices still used extensively today. The Statistical Quality Control Handbook is still worth a read. https://www.westernelectric.com/library#technical Man, I miss Bell Labs.
on “One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube” ↗…as the 14 Points, see his book Out of the Crisis (1986), reprinted by MIT Press. For the practical application of control charts and other techniques (due originally to Shewhart and others), see the Statistical Quality Control Handbook (Western Electric, 1958) or, for a more up-to-date treatment, the NIST/SEMATCH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm
on “Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming” ↗