The control chart (CC) is an important tool in Statistical Process Control (SPC) to improve the quality of products and processes. An unnatural variation in control maps assumes that an assignable cause affects the process is present, and some actions need to be applied to solve the problem. Thanks to their better recognition capability, NEURO-FUZZY is a powerful tool for process control and ra...

Eastman Kodak Company is using a scanner-based image quality measurement system to perform production line testing of the image quality of a high-quality thermal media based imaging system. Automating this process has led to increased throughput, has guaranteed uniformity in measurement methods on multiple branches of the production line, and has transferred subjective evaluations into parametr...

Multivariate control charts such as Hotelling`s T^ 2 and X^ 2 are commonly used for monitoring several related quality characteristics. These control charts use correlation structure that exists between quality characteristics in an attempt to improve monitoring. The purpose of this article is to discuss some issues related to the G chart proposed by Levinson et al. [9] for detecting shifts in ...

This paper presents a supervisory generalized predictive control (GPC) by combining GPC with statistical process control (SPC) for the control of the thin film deposition process. In the supervised GPC, the deposition process is described as an ARMAX model for each production run and GPC is applied to the in situ thickness-sensing data for thickness control. Supervisory strategies, developed fr...

Background. Statistical process control (SPC) can be an effective complement to healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance. Since this use of SPC somewhat differs from its manufacturing origins, some issues warrant exploration to maximize SPC’s value in detecting outbreaks and reducing HAIs. Little empirical investigation has been conducted to develop a framework for managing signals fr...

Background: The stock exchange, as a regulated financial market, in modern economies reflects their economic development level. The stock market indicates the mood of investors in the development of a country and is an important ingredient for growth. Objectives: This paper aims to introduce an additional statistical tool used to support the decision-making process in stock trading, and it inve...

The control chart (CC) is an important tool in Statistical Process Control (SPC) to improve the quality of products and processes. An unnatural variation in control maps assumes that an assignable cause affects the process is present, and some actions need to be applied to solve the problem. Thanks to their better recognition capability, NEURO-FUZZY is a powerful tool for process control and ra...

Control charts for monitoring of process variance are developed based on Shewhart, exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) and cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charts for mean. In all these variance control charts, log transformation of the sample variance is used. The design procedure of this chart is complex and it is poorly understood by the industry. In this paper a EWMA chart for monito...

In many applications the shift directions of observation vectors are limited, which allows focusing detection power on a limited subspace with improved sensitivity. This paper develops a new multivariate nonparametric statistical process control chart for monitoring location parameters, which is based on integrating a directional multivariate spatial-sign test and exponentially weighted moving ...

Process-Oriented Basis Representation (POBREP) is an effective method of multivariate statistical process control that is seldom used in manufacturing. Rather than monitoring individual process variables, POBREP seeks to identify specific causes of production problems and map those into a basis matrix. These patterns can then be monitored with single-variable SPC techniques or traditional multi...