This book is written by K. Ishikawa, known as the "father of Japanese Quality Control". It shows supervisors and line personnel how to apply the on-line quality control techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing and are now revitalizing industry in other parts of the world. This hands-on guide has already thousands of people including those in such leading corporations as Toyota, Sony, Ford, HP, and hundreds of others. Acclaimed as the best book on the subject by several leading quality control journals, this book presents a wealth of practical techniques in an understandable fashion, enhances the problem-solving skill of those who study it, and includes practice problems in the use of histograms, Pareto diagrams, scatter diagrams and binomial probability.