... in these industries appear to have more problems with maintaining high quality levels. Design/methodology/approach The research studies the effects of increasing product variety and shortening product life cycles on one control system: quality management. Findings In situations of shortening product life...

...Zhang Wu Presents an approach to determine the optimum control limits of the x‐bar chart for skewed process distributions. The approach takes both the control limits of the x‐bar chart and the specification limits of x into consideration, and relates the out‐of‐control...

... improvements in process and product engineering is consistent with attempts to incorporate the workforce in the projects of capital without extending to any substantive control over business strategy or the dispersal of profits. Thus, companies now seek to secure an adequate return on capital...

...René Gélinas Usually, statistical process control uses control charts for monitoring the evolution of a manufacturing process. Traditionally, control limits are computed without considering another aspect of statistical process control: the process capability (PC). This is essential information...

...Mamoun Al‐Salti; Anthony Statham The use of Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques for monitoring manufacturing processes in mass production is relatively easy. In small‐batch manufacture, however, such techniques can be difficult to implement due to lack of sufficient data to establish...

...X. Ding; P.M. Frank Studies problems related to modelling, control and monitoring of circulatory systems with an artificial heart. First, presents a pulsatile model of cardiovascular systems. This model has a well‐grounded physiological basis and includes several reflex control systems...