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Quality Engineering and Quality Management

Juran, The Quality Control Handbook	THE QC technical reference.
Juran, Quality Planning and Analysis	Shorter version of QCH.
Kuhn, Structures of Scientific Revolution	Theoretical, tough read, necessity.
Aquayo, Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality	Excellent read, basic, mandatory.
Walton, The Deming Management Method	Similar to Aquayo, but drier.
Walton, Deming Management at Work	Case studies, excellent!
Peters, In Search of Excellence	Classic, anecdotal, good stuff.
Peters, Thriving on Chaos	More of the same.
Gabor, The Man Who Discovered Quality	Good read.
Juran, Quality by Design	Good easy read, very structured.
Juran, Juran on Leadership for Quality	Similar to previous.
Feigenbaum, Total Quality Control	Technical reference - a classic.
Deming, Out of the Crisis	Excellent! A classic.
Crosby, Quality is Free	Excellent! Easy read. A classic.
Dobyns and Crawford-Mason, Quality or Else	Excellent. Easy read. Very basic.
Ishikawa, Guide to Quality Control	Classic reference.
Kanter, The Change Masters	Awesome!!! Deserves careful study, but advanced.
Scholtes, The Team Handbook	The team benchmark.
Imai, Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success	Classic lean book.
Imai, Gemba Kaizen	Excellent follow-up to the first book.
Campanella, Principles of Quality Costs	Excellent reference. Very readable.
Besterfield, Quality Control	basic reference, CQT level
Russell, Quality Audit Handbook	reference, excellent
Pennella, Managing the Metrology System	reference, excellent
AIAG, The Supplier Seven Pack (QS9000)	reference, excellent and cheap!
ISO/TR 10017: Guidance On Statistical Techniques for ISO 9001:2000	matrices of method and where and when to apply them
Blake and Mouton, The Managerial Grid	on leadership styles, classic
Scherkenbach, The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity	Deming disciple, similar book to Aquayo
Senge, The Fifth Discipline	teaming, learning organizations
Blanchard, Raving Fans	on exceeding expectations
Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	classic, gazillion seller
Britz, Improving Performance Through Statistical Thinking	excellent intro to variation, q. costs, charts, …
Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy	risk literacy, decision making
Roberts and Sergesketter, Quality is Personal	improvement for individuals
Bhote and Bhote, World Class Quality	inflammatory, biased, but fun with good examples
Katzenbach and Smith, The Wisdom of Teams	great reference on teams with examples
Sagan, A Demon-Haunted World:    Science as a Candle in the Dark	The scientific method, witches, and space aliens! See especially the chapter on the baloney detection kit.

Six Sigma

Breyfogle, Implementing Six Sigma	great Six Sigma technical reference!
Pande et al, The Six Sigma Way	good Six Sigma management reference
Pande et al, The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook	excellent basic practical recipe for Six Sigma written at a simple level so managers can understand it
Eckes, The Six Sigma Revolution	good Six Sigma management, one of my favorite

Lean

Womack, Jones, and Khoo, The Machine that Changed the World	original lean book in the US (1990)
Womack and Jones, Lean Thinking	excellent lean read
Hammer and Champy, Reengineering the Corporation	excellent, eye-opening, first of a series
Liker, The Toyota Way	excellent disclosure of Toyota Production System
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd., Poka-Yoke	beautiful how-to picture book, coffee-table book for manufacturing engineering geeks

Case Studies

Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow	REALLY IMPORTANT!
Taleb, The Black Swan	REALLY IMPORTANT!
Taleb, Fooled By Randomness	REALLY IMPORTANT!
Ingrassia and White, Comeback	REALLY IMPORTANT! Pulitzer winners, easy read, eye-opener
Boyett et al, The Quality Journey	account of IBM’s Baldrige award with application!
Crichton, Airframe	fiction, good reliability story
Kidder, Soul of a New Machine	excellent management case study, Pulitzer winner, awesome read
Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?	Challenger accident and other good stories
Goldratt, The Goal	fiction, fun read, first of successful series
Sobel, Longitude	historical, easy read, get the picture book version or see the movie
Rich, Skunk Works	great history and case study of the Lockheed operation, easy read
Pohl, Chernobyl	mostly factual account of the nuclear accident
Norman, Design of Everyday Things	Essential for anyone who designs things that other people have to use

Math and Graphics

Peterson, The Jungles of Randomness	excellent math/stats concepts for normal humans
Casti, Searcing for Certainty	much like Peterson, also excellent
Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	first of three classic references, beautiful coffee- table book for data geeks
Tung, Topics in Mathematical Modeling	excellent introduction to mathematical (first principles, not statistical) modeling with atypical and interesting examples, e.g. scaling laws in biology and networks, population models, chaos, global warming, El Nino, Romeo and Juliet, predator-prey, marriage/divorce rates, and other topics
Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers	Wonderful, funny biography of genius mathematician Paul Erdös
Strogatz, The Joy of X	well written, light introduction to maths from counting to advanced topics
Silver, The Signal and The Noise	applications of statistical thinking, prediction, and uncertainty to current topics: sports betting, political punditry, earthquake prediction, investment strategies, climate change, terrorism

Design of Experiments

Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments	One of the best DOE books available. Assumes an advanced technical level but very complete.
Box, Hunter, and Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters	Excellent book! Well worth the $ and effort.
Hicks, Introduction to Design of Experiments	Good reference. A bit terse, but everything's here.
Neter, Kutner, Nachtsheim, and Wasserman, Applied Linear Statistical Models	Big book, well written, complete, and worth every penny!
Bhote and Bhote, World Class Quality:   Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen	On Shainin's alternative DOE methods, outrageous claims of success, slights against other methods, and lots of typos and mistakes, but also lots of fun.
Mathews, Design of Experiments with MINITAB

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