... has previously been paid to application of goodness of fit tests in process control. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Goodness of fit tests Numerical Simulation Process control Process control has been a topic of research for decades. Different approached have been proposed...

... Taguchi methods Foundry engineering Process control Quality control Casting defects Differential housing cover Factor optimization Charge constituents © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 D.R. Prajapati can be contacted at: praja_3000@yahoo.com Sillen (2002) described...

... and in optimizing the management of resources. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 ISO/TS 16949 Quality management system Process control Delphi method Control charts Capability index Exhaust tubes Stainless steel This paper presents the application of a procedure for the quality...

... whether or not two processes are equally capable. Naturally, decisions made using the procedure to select the better supplier are more reliable than decisions made using other methods. Process efficiency Statistics Process analysis Process control Process capability indices (PCIs), which aim...

... machining operations to meet the tolerance requirements. It just costs too much! Quality function deployment Failure mode effects analysis Product development Manufacturing Design Process control The purpose of this paper is to review the fundamental characteristics, outcomes...

... to test whether their processes meet the capability requirement. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Process control Modelling Quantitative techniques Sampling techniques Several capability indices including C_p, C_PU, C_PL...

... connection, as it is generally where employees assemble to receive unfavourable news. There is a strong requirement for an appropriate meeting‐place for the SMED project, as many meetings and presentations will be required. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Textile industry Teamwork Process control...

...Chu‐Hua Kuei William J.   Kolarik . Creating Quality – Process Design for Results . McGraw‐Hill , 1999 . 641 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0‐07‐036309‐9 Quality Process design Process control Every work is a process. Every organization needs a set of well‐designed...

... a specific proportion of the population at a given confidence level. In the context of process control, they are used to make sure that production will not be outside specifications. In this article, we provide useful coverages for the MaxMin EWMA chart, when also used as tolerance limits. The proposed EWMA...

... Limited 1998 Process control Product design Reliability Risk It is common knowledge in many industries that a lot of problems, which show up in production and the use of products, find their roots in the design stage of these products (Stevens, 1993). Fixing these design problems during...

... distribution for process control of high‐yield processes. The expected value and the variance of the total number of counts Z in a subgroup of size n are given by Based on the conventional idea of k‐sigma, that is, the control limits computed as the k times...

...Sheng‐Hsien (Gary) Teng; Shin‐Yann (Michael) Ho Discusses the implementation of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) for both product design and process control. FMEA is implemented in two ways to ensure that the reliability requirements are met for the production of an airbag inflator. Design...

... ] to minimize equation (9). The solution procedure has been written in FORTRAN and the examples and data sets in the next section were run on an IBM PC 486. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Control charts Hazards Preventive maintenance Process control Quality Reliability For illustration...

... Limited 1995 Averaging Control charts Process control Statistics Shewhart’s • and s (or R) control charts[ 1 ] have been used very widely in industries to detect two types of process shifts: the shift of mean value μ and the shift of standard deviation σ. The ultimate aim...

... of process behaviour under these assumptions is given in Figure 1 . © MCB UP Limited 1995 Control charts Mathematics Process control Statistics The exponentially weighted moving average, (EWMA), has found applications in a number of different areas. It is known to have some...

... to the improvement of the effectiveness of the control charts and to the reduction of the cost of SPC (statistical process control). Presents an approach to estimate δ and f of the shift modes, using the sample data from the SPC and adopts a clustering method to classify different shift modes. Finally, describes...

... to decide whether the single • chart scheme can be applied to a given process control. The lower and upper control limits for the s chart are: Equation (3) where the value of the parameter c₄, decided by the sample size n, can be found in any text of quality...

... engineering Process control Quality control The problem of detecting shifts in the process variability has not received as much attention as that of detecting shifts in the process mean of continuous production processes even though it is important in the context of quality control. Shewhart[ 1...

...R. Jagadeesh; A. Subash Babu Manufacturing systems are gearing up to meet the challenges of quality‐based competition. Process capability study and analysis have become critical issues in process control and a number of guidelines are available for process capability assessment. However, certain...

...Shawky E. Shamma; Raid W. Amin © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 1993 CONTROL CHARTS PROCESS CONTROL SAMPLING IJQRM 10,7 58 Received February 1992 Revised August 1992 An EWMA Quality Control Procedure for Jointly Monitoring the Mean and Variance Shawky E. Shamma and Raid W. Amin...