This book is a practical workingmanual. It deals primarily with various types of control charts and acceptancesampling systems and procedures. The objective behind Statistical QualityControl has been to write a book thatmight be immediately useful. The aim has been to give just enough theory tosupply practical working rules that will enable one to recognize the limitationsof the methods as well as their many uses. A special feature of this book is theliberal use of descriptions of actual cases from a number of economic sectors.Each example has been selected to bring out one or more important points. Thebook retains its intuitive approach to probability and statistics. The book isdivided into four parts: part one is a short introduction to the topics coveredin the other three parts; part two treats topics concerning statistical processcontrol; part three discusses scientific sampling and part four deals with theeconomics of quality as well as some management and teaching aspects of qualitycontrol.