... Limited 2011 Design Process efficiency Experimental design Quality of the products and services is an important determinant for the financial performance of a firm. Further, the contribution of quality to build the economy of a country, bring global peace and to lessen environmental...

... the advantage of discovering non‐linear relationships, but only two level settings were used in this work, for the same reason; that it increases chance of successful OA population. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Design Process efficiency Optimization techniques Neural nets Taguchi...

... to the time taken. Further suggestions included eliminating the need to wash‐up by eating out, using paper plates, or buying a dishwasher, however, it was noted that these solutions all required extra expenditure. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Quality management Process...

... is guaranteed to exceed 99.73 percent. Process efficiency Statistics Process analysis Process control Process capability indices (PCIs), which aim to provide a numerical measure of whether a production process is capable of producing items satisfying preset factory quality requirements, have...

... S_pmk, with illustrations. (see equation 3) (see equation 4) © MCB UP Limited 2001 Process efficiency Measurement Many process capability indices have been proposed to provide numerical measures on process performance. They have been widely used...

... are asymmetric. Comparisons between the original Clements’ method and the proposed generalization are provided. The results indicate that the generalization is more accurate than the original Clements’ method in measuring process capability. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Manufacturing Measurement Process...

... (a special form of EDM) a continuously moving wire is used as an electrode. A schematic of WEDM is shown in Figure 1 . © MCB UP Limited 1999 Design of experiments Machining Optimization Process efficiency Taguchi methods Each combination of factors was run on the machine for a short...

... and C_pmk. Bootstrap simulation method is then utilized to construct the lower confidence limits of PCIs, thereby allowing the process’s capability to be evaluated. A numerical example demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed procedure. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Customer requirements Process...

... clustered defects. A case study is also evaluated, indicating that the proposed method produces satisfactory control charts for the defect data in IC fabrication. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Control charts Cluster analysis Integrated circuits Process efficiency Integrated circuit (IC...

... of samples, taken during an extended period of time since we may have constant variation within the groups but a considerable variation among the average values over the same period of time. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Implementation Process efficiency Sweden Theory During the last two...

... is desirable for a tight and accurate confidence interval for these process capability indices. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Indexes Performance Process efficiency There have been, over the years, a number of process capability indices proposed in order to assess the capability of a process...

... of the nature and type of error a rather straightforward process. The performance of each operator was compared to all other operators to yield 496 possible pairwise comparisons. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Process efficiency Quality Reliability Systems The literature of total quality...