In some statistical process control applications, the quality of the product is characterized by thecombination of both correlated variable and attributes quality characteristics. In this paper, we propose anovel control scheme based on the combination of two multi-layer perceptron neural networks forsimultaneous monitoring of mean vector as well as the covariance matrix in multivariate-attribu...

Due to competition in the market, organization must have quality improvement program. Statistical quality control and especially control charts are proven quality improvement techniques. Control charts are based on the quality characteristics measurement in the course of time. There are some situations such as measurement error, sophisticated measurement instruments, costly skilled inspectors, ...

The main goal of most organizations, no matter of their nature, object or size, is to be competitive as possible on the market, a crucial factor in ensuring a long operating duration. Unfortunately, the appearance of variation is a very bad and undesirable thing that determine a decrease in the companies productivity. Managing and providing a better view competitiveness can not be given unless ...

Among innovations and improvements occurred in the past two decades on the techniques and tools used for statistical process control (SPC), adaptive control charts have shown to substantially improve the statistical and/or economical performances. Variable sampling intervals (VSI) control charts are one of the most applied types of the adaptive control charts and have shown to be faster than tr...

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Traditional statistical process control charts used to monitor key process variables are based on the assumption that measurements are independent and identically distributed about a target value. In practice they are not and often are actually correlated. Reliance on univariate charts can lead to misleading conclusions. This paper addresses the methods for improving the quality of industrial p...

One-class classification problems have attracted a great deal of attention from various disciplines. In the present study, we attempt to extend the scope of application of the one-class classification technique to statistical process control (SPC) problems. We propose new multivariate control charts that apply the effectiveness of one-class classification to improvement of Phase I and Phase II ...

Traditional literature on statistical quality control discusses separately multivariate control charts for independent processes and univariate control charts for autocorrelated processes. We extend univariate residual monitoring to the multivariate environment, and propose using vector autoregressive residuals (VAR) to monitor multivariate processes in the presence of serial correlation. We ma...