The text is written for technique oriented courses on quality like Introduction to Statistical Quality Control/Process Improvement that stress the use of statistical tools.In addition to the statistical tools, the text contains a section (Chapters 2-5) on non-statistical problem solving tools for quality improvement.

The main audience for this book are students in both undergraduate and graduate-level courses on Quality or Quality Control taught in Industrial Engineering programs, Statistics Departments and Schools of Business and Management.Other courses include: Applied Statistical Methods, Engineering Statistics, and Statistics for MBA or Executive MBA programs.This book is also appropriate for use in in-house company training courses on quality.