OBJECTIVES "Average of normal" (AoN) or "moving average" is increasingly used as an adjunct quality control tool in laboratory practice. Little guidance exists on how to verify if an out-of-control situation in the AoN chart is due to a shift in analytical performance, or underlying patient characteristics. DESIGN AND METHODS Through simulation based on clinical data, we examined 1) the locat...

  Multistage process monitoring has recently attracted notable attention in that the statistical relationships between quality variables are taken into account. Here, we dealt with the problem of monitoring and diagnosing a two-stage production process with attribute characteristics in which the outgoing quality variable is impacted by the incoming quality variable from the first process stage....

The current popularity of Six Sigma has highlighted the importance of variation reduction in production and service delivery process. In fact, the capability of a company in meeting customers’ quality requirements is primarily determined by the existing variation in their processes. Reducing process variation should be among the top priority for companies pursuing continuous improvement or Six ...

Control chart is the most well-known chart to monitor the number of nonconformities per inspection unit where each sample consists of constant size. Generally, the design of a control chart requires determination of sample size, sampling interval, and control limits width. Optimally selecting these parameters depends on several process parameters, which have been considered from statistical and...

Assuming a first-order auto-regressive model for the auto-correlation structure between observations, in this paper, a transformation method is first employed to eliminate the effect of auto-correlation. Then, a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of a step change in the parameters of the transformed model is derived and three separate EWMA control charts are used to monitor the parameters of th...

A distribution-free tabular CUSUM chart is designed to detect shifts in the mean of an autocorrelated process. The chart’s average run length (ARL) is approximated by generalizing Siegmund’s ARL approximation for the conventional tabular CUSUM chart based on independent and identically distributed normal observations. Control limits for the new chart are computed from the generalized ARL approx...

Control charts are used to see the performance of a process. Nonparametric control present overcome processes with unknown distribution patterns. This paper will show application nonparametric using Sign Test and Wilcoxon Rank on Animal Feed data PT. Japfa Comfeed Indonesia, Tbk. The results that chart has same effectiveness as sign chart.

Quality control charts are very effective in detecting out of control signals but when a control chart signals an out of control condition of the process mean, searching for a special cause in the vicinity of the signal time would not always lead to prompt identification of the source(s) of the out of control condition as the change point in the process parameter(s) is usually different from th...