Nickolas Logothetis

Nickolas Logothetis (Greek: Νικόλαος Λογοθέτης, born in Kavala, Greece, on 19 August 1952) has a management consulting firm. He was Vice President of the Hellenic Statistical Authority.[1][2]

Education - degrees obtained[3]

main subject: Ergodic Theory and Information.
main subjects: Probability and Statistics, Computing.
main subjects: Mathematics, Statistics.
Certificate No: LA/96/GR/257

Employment

(Management Consulting Firm providing training and advisory services on matters of ISO-9001, ISO-14001, OHSAS-18001, STATISTICS and Total Quality Management)
Position: Managing Director
Member of Associated Educational Personnel (Teaching Counselor and Diploma Theses-Supervisor) on the Postgraduate Course “Advanced Methods for Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement”
Position: Senior Consultant with BT's Management Science Consultancy Unit, (Level-3 Manager in the Unit's Management 5-level hierarchy) providing a consultancy service to Senior Management of BT on the following areas: Process planning and optimization. Quality assessment and cost modeling. Risk analysis, Risk Management and Project Management. Statistical Analysis, Estimation, Simulation and Forecasting of demand. Statistical Process Control. Taguchi methods and Off-line Experimentation. Collection, classification, spread-sheet analysis/interpretation of data, ISO-9000, Total Quality Management.
Positions:
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Relevant activities

Degree of Certification: 'U' (Unconditional: no restrictions - can undertake work either Solo or as a Team Leader) Areas of Consultation: Total Quality Management, ISO-9000, Production Management, Logistics, Research & Development.

Publications

Books

  1. Lord ROTHSCHILD V. and LOGOTHETIS N. (1986): "Probability Distributions"; J. Wiley & Sons
  2. LOGOTHETIS N. and WYNN H.P. (1989): "Quality through Design: Experimental Design, Off-line Quality Control and Taguchi's contributions"; Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press).[4]
  3. LOGOTHETIS N (1992): “Managing for Total Quality” Prentice Hall International (UK).[5] Available also in Greek translation, INTERBOOKS, Athens, Greece.
  4. LOGOTHETIS N (2000): “Methods and Techniques for Continuous Quality Improvement”; HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY
  5. LOGOTHETIS N (2008): “Taguchi Methods and Techniques for Control & Continuous Quality Improvement” ; HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY

Papers

  1. LOGOTHETIS N. (1987a): "Off-line Quality Control with prior exploration of Data"; GEC Journal of Research, Vol. 5, No.1,40-48
  2. LOGOTHETIS N. (1987b): "Off-line Quality Control and ill-designed data"; Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 227-238
  3. LOGOTHETIS N. and HAIGH A. (1987): "The Statistical flexibility of the Taguchi method in the Optimization of Multi-Response Processes"; The Professional Statistician, Vol 6, Issue 7, p. 10-16; (also in the book: 'Taguchi-methods; Applications in world industry', p. 113-127, IFS Publications/Spinger-Verlag, 1989).
  4. LOGOTHETIS N. (1988a): "The role of Data-transformation in the Taguchi Analysis"; Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 49-61
  5. LOGOTHETIS N. (1988b): "Achieving high quality at low cost: The Japanese secret"; Information-Compupress, Athens, Dec.1988, p. 39-45
  6. LOGOTHETIS N. and HAIGH A. (1988): "Characterizing and optimizing Multi-Response Processes by the Taguchi method"; Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol.4, No. 2, p. 159-169[6]
  7. LOGOTHETIS N. and SALMON J. (1988): "Tolerance Design and Analysis of Audio-Circuits"; Chapter 11 in the book:'Taguchi methods: proceedings of the 1988 European Conference" (edited by A.Bendell), Elsevier Applied Science Publications.
  8. LOGOTHETIS N. (1989a): "Establishing a Noise Performance Measure"; The Statistician, Vol. 38, No. 3, p 155-174
  9. LOGOTHETIS N. (1989b): "The Management principles of Deming for high quality, productivity and competitive position"; Information - Compupress, Athens, January 1990, p. 118-122.
  10. LOGOTHETIS N., ATKINSON C., SALMON J. and BEST K. (1989): "Development of newly installed processes"; International Journal of "Advanced Manufacturing Technology".
  11. LOGOTHETIS N. (1990a): "The Box-Cox Transformations and the Taguchi method"; Applied Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C), Vol.39, No.1, p. 31-48.[7]
  12. LOGOTHETIS N. (1990b): "Minute Accumulating Analysis and Life-Testing"; Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol.17, No.2, p. 175-185.[8]
  13. LOGOTHETIS N. (1990c): "Managing the Component-Tolerances"; Journal of Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No. 1,p. 75-84.
  14. LOGOTHETIS N. (1990d): "The theory of 'Pre-Control': A serious method or a colourful naivity?"; Journal of Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No. 2, p. 207-220.
  15. LOGOTHETIS N. (1990e): "A perspective on Shainin's approach to Experimental Design for Quality Improvement"; Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol 6, No 2, p. 195-202.
  16. LOGOTHETIS N. (1990f): "Alternatives to Fractional Experimentation: An assessment and critique"; Journal of Total Quality Management, Vol 1, No 3, p. 335-344.
  17. LOGOTHETIS N. (1994): "Towards a Quality Management of Education"; Total Quality Management, Vol. 6, Nos 5&6, p. 479-486.
  18. LOGOTHETIS N. (1995): "Fundamental Principles and Particular Techniques for TQM in the Health Service Sector"; Proceedings of the Conference TQM AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS, Thessaliniki, Greece, 4-6/11/94, p. 39-45.
  19. P. S. GEORGILAKIS, N. D. HATZIARGYRIOU, N. LOGOTHETIS, S. S. ELEFSINIOTIS (2000) : Establishing an Optimal Annealing Process of Magnetic Cores by the Taguchi Method, CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, Volume: 2, page(s): 1033-1040 vol.2

(From 1991 onwards:) Numerous publications in Greek newspapers and periodicals.

References

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