Process yield has been an essential criterion used for manufacturing industries in business management. Quality managers and engineers involved in factories require capability analyses to access process yields, particularly, for processes with a very low fraction of defectives. It is noted that the accuracy of process yield is important; as it is one of major considerations for supplier selecti...

Process capability indices Cp, Cpk, Cpm and Cpp fitting for nominal-the-best type quality characteristics, are effective tools to assess process capability since these indices can reflect a centering process capability and process yield adequately. The index Cpp introduced by Greenwith and Jahr-Schaffrath [Greenwith, M., Jahr-Schaffrath, B.L., 1995. A process incapability index. International J...

Abstract Evaluation of document models for text based Information retrieval is crucial for developing document models that are appropriate for specific domains. Unfortunately, current document model evaluation methods for text retrieval provide no feedback, except for an evaluation score. To improve a model, we must use trial and error. In this article, we examine how we can provide feedback in...

Comparing residuals from two earthquakes is difficult because earthquake locations interact with differences in three variables: (1) the spatial location of the source; (2) the set of stations that record each earthquake; and (3) the precision of individual arrival time measurements. Effective comparisons can be made by looking only at the components the residuals from two different earthquakes...

The covariance matrix is formulated in the framework of a linear multivariate ARCH process with long memory, where the natural cross product structure of the covariance is generalized by adding two linear terms with their respective parameter. The residuals of the linear ARCH process are computed using historical data and the (inverse square root of the) covariance matrix. Simple measure of qua...

a linear low density polyethylene (lldpe) production process, including two- fuidized bed reactors in series (fbrs) and other process equipment, was completely simulated by aspen polymer plus software. fluidized bed reactors were considered as continuous stirred tank reactors (cstr consisted of polymer and gas phases). poly-srk and nrtl-rk equations of state were used to describe polymer and no...

Process capability is an important concept for industrial managers to understand. The challenge in today’s competitive markets is to be on the leading edge of producing high quality products at minimum costs. This cannot be done without a systematic approach and this approach is contained within what has been called “statistical quality control” or “industrial statistics.” The segment of statis...

Process capability indices are widely regarded as a flexible means of evaluating the quality and performance of a process. Accreditation by the Quality System Requirement QS9000 requires an agent to conduct a global evaluation on the process capability over the entire product family from a plant. Generally, the process capability of the whole product family is an important reference for evaluat...

For non-normal Pearsonian processes, Clements proposed a method for calculating estimators of the two basic process capability indices Cp and Cpk. Pearn and Kotz applied Clements' method to obtain estimators for the other two more advanced process capability indices Cpm and Cpmk. Their considerations on those indices, however, are restricted to processes with symmetric tolerances. Recently, Pea...