The Juran's Quality Handbook: A Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, 6th edition has just been released in May 2010. This complete revision and special edition of the legendary quality management handbook will commemorate the legacy of the "Father of Quality Management", Dr. Joseph. M. Juran and preserve his core messages, knowledge and experience, so that future organizational leaders and quality professionals will continue to learn his universal concept, how to produce superior quality and business results.

While strengthening the core purpose and content of the handbook, the sixth edition adds the most effective methods and tools that are needed to attaining superior organizational results in today's High Quality, Customer Driven, Lean and Green environment with a new twist include Benchmarking Best Practices, Continuous Innovation, Eco-Quality, Lean, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma, and Agile Software and Systems Development. New Industry sections include Defense, Healthcare, Services, Web Based and Manufacturing.

The new handbook is divided into four sections:

Section 1  Key Concepts:  What Leaders Need to Know about Quality
Section 2  Methods & Tools:  What to Use to Attain Superior Results through Quality
Section 3  Applications:  Most Important Methods in Your Industry
Section 4  Key Functions:  Your Role in Performance Excellence

For more information please contact Juran Institute www.juran.com or (800) 338-7726. If you want to contact the Co-Editor and President of Juran, Joe DeFeo, please send an email to jdefeo@juran.com

The Juran Institute is a collaborating organization of JUSE.