Previously, it has been held that statistical process control (SPC) and engineering process control (EPC) were two distinct domains for process improvement. However, we design four control policies to integrate the two approaches using a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback controller and Shewhart or moving centerline exponentially weighted moving average (MCEWMA) charts. We specific...

One of the hallmarks of statistical thinking is the importance of measuring and understanding variability. The Shewhart Control Chart, which separates special cause from common cause variation, is one of the most important tools for understanding the current state of a process. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) is another statistical tool for splitting variability into component sources. These c...

Background & objectives: One of the biggest concerns about the increasing development of the mining industries, especially in the dry and tropical regions, is their high water consumption and, consequently, the serious threat to the local water resources as well as the impacts of these industrieschr('39') pollution on the environment and other downstream water resources. Therefore, it is necess...

'Funnel plots' are recommended as a graphical aid for institutional comparisons, in which an estimate of an underlying quantity is plotted against an interpretable measure of its precision. 'Control limits' form a funnel around the target outcome, in a close analogy to standard Shewhart control charts. Examples are given for comparing proportions and changes in rates, assessing association betw...

In this paper, we evaluate the capability to detect traffic anomalieswith Shewhart, CUSUM, andEWMA control charts. In order to cope with seasonal variation and serial correlation, control charts are not applied to traffic measurement time-series directly, but to the prediction errors of exponential smoothing and Holt-Winters forecasting. The evaluation relies on flow data collected in an ISP ba...

The Burr type XII has been studied for various applications of lifetime modelings. However, control charts related to the Burr type XII percentiles have not been seen in the literature. In this paper, three control charts for the Burr type XII percentiles are investigated. An extensive Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to compare among the Shewhart-type chart, and parametric bootstrap c...

BACKGROUND Comparison of outcomes requires adequate risk adjustment for differences in patient risk and the type of intervention performed. Both unintentional and intentional misclassification (also called gaming) of risk factors might lead to incorrect benchmark results. Therefore, misclassification of risk factors should be detected. We investigated the use of statistical process control tech...