...) proposed the evolutionary operation (EVOP) approach for enhancing process efficiency continually. In accordance to this, a process should be run not only to produce the products efficiently it should also generate data with which it can be improved. The process should be run sometimes with somewhat changed...

... to populate the OA, which are described in detail in the following section. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Design Process efficiency Optimization techniques Neural nets Taguchi methods Design of Experiments (DoE) methods have been used extensively in industry for process...

... 2005 Quality management Process efficiency Quality improvement As a population, we are generally introduced to some of the basic quality management tools very early within our education. The tally chart (five‐bar gate) and histogram, for instance, are often introduced during primary...

... 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...

... of nonconformity. Note that the estimator in expression (14) may not perform well for small samples. (see equation 2) (see equation 5) Process efficiency Measurement (see equation 6) Many process capability indices have been proposed to provide numerical measures...

..., and the sample median M obtaining: Manufacturing Measurement Process efficiency Theory For non‐normal distributions, Clements (1989) and Pearn and Kotz (1994) considered a method for calculating estimators of those indices assuming that the process follows the Pearsonian distribution...

... levels of each factor. These factor levels have been selected such that wide ranges of values are covered. The values of input parameter levels are shown in Table III . Design of experiments Machining Optimization Process efficiency Taguchi methods Design of experiments (DOE) is one...

... 1998 Customer requirements Process efficiency Process management Statistics ...

... 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...

..., practical problems, conservative personal attitudes and methodological aspects. Based on the results, some suggestions for successfully implementing and using process capability studies are presented. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Implementation Process efficiency Sweden Theory The existence...

... (1989). © 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 for meeting certain specifications. Kane (1986) comprehensively investigated...

... gathered in both the first and the second database. This variable was collected in the second database to serve as an independent variable in predicting the reliability of the parallel system configuration. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Process efficiency Quality Reliability Systems...