Connected, Intelligent, Automated: The Definitive Guide to Digital Transformation and Quality 4.0

by Nicole Radziwill

Overview

Quality 4.0 is for all industries, and this book is for anyone who wants to learn how Industry 4.0 and Quality 4.0 can help improve quality and performance in their team or company. This comprehensive guide is the culmination of 25 years of research and practice-exploring, implementing, and critically examining the quality and performance improvement aspects of Industry 4.0 technologies. Navigate the connected, intelligent, and automated ecosystems of infrastructure, people, objects, machines, and data. Sift through the noise around AI, AR, big data, blockchain, cybersecurity, and other rising technologies and emerging issues to find the signals for your organization. Discover the value proposition of Quality 4.0 and the leading role for quality professionals to drive successful digital transformation initiatives. The changes ahead are powerful, exciting, and overwhelming-and we can draw on the lessons from past work to mitigate the risks we face today.Connected, Intelligent, Automated provides you with the techniques, philosophies, and broad overall knowledge you need to understand Quality 4.0, and helps you leverage those things for the future success of your enterprise. Chapter 1: Quality 4.0 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Chapter 2: Connected Ecosystems Chapter 3: Intelligent Agents and Machine Learning Chapter 4: Automation: From Manual Labor to Autonomy Chapter 5: Quality 4.0 Use Cases Across Industries Chapter 6: From Algorithms to Advanced Analytics Chapter 7: Delivering Value and Impact Through Data Science Chapter 8: Data Quality and Data Management Chapter 9: Software Applications & Data Platforms Chapter 10: Blockchain Chapter 11: Performance Excellence Chapter 12: Environment, Health, Safety, Quality (EHSQ), and Cybersecurity Chapter 13: Voice of the Customer (VoC) Chapter 14: Elements of a Quality 4.0 Strategy Chapter 15: Playbook for Transformation N. M. Radziwillspan is Senior VP of Quality and Strategy at Ultranauts, a professional services firm specializing in quality assurance and quality engineering for software, data science, and digital transformation. Radziwill is editor of the journal, Software Quality Professional, an ASQ fellow, and an ASQ-certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Radziwill is one of ASQ's Influential Voices and blogs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951058012
Publisher:	ASQ Quality Press
Publication date:	02/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	481
File size:	38 MB
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About the Author

Nicole Radziwill is Senior Vice President of Quality and Strategy at Ultranauts, a professional services firm specializing in quality assurance and quality engineering for software, data science, and digital transformation. Formerly VP of the Global Quality and Supply Chain Practice at Intelex Technologies in Toronto, and a tenured Associate Professor of Data Science and Production Systems, she is a fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), editor of Software Quality Professional, and a past chair of the ASQ Software Division. She regularly serves as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), and has contributed to the development of ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility. Nicole has a PhD in Quality Systems and an MBA; she is an ASQ Certified Manager of Operational Excellence (CMQ/OE) and an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). She does research at the intersection of data science, machine learning, and business value. She has 25 years of experience in quality management and data science, from building numerical weather prediction models and new observing systems in meteorology, to enterprise software implementation for telecom and high-tech, to managing big data and analysis pipelines for astronomical research. Her 2019 book, Statistics (The Easier Way) With R, 3rd Edition (Tidyversion), has been used for undergraduate and graduate courses in more than 30 schools in 13 countries.