Statistical process control methods for monitoring processes with univariate ormultivariate measurements are used widely when the quality variables fit to known probabilitydistributions. Some processes, however, are better characterized by a profile or a function of qualityvariables. For each profile, it is assumed that a collection of data on the response variable along withthe values of the c...

A Communicating Transaction Process (CTP) is a computational model that serves as a high level specification language for reactive embedded system components and their interactions. It consists of a network of communicating processes coordinating their behaviors via common actions and the common actions are refined as a set of guarded Message Sequence Charts (MSCs). There has been little work d...

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...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines maintain that single-use vials cannot be used for multiple patients. Botox product labeling states that the reconstituted toxin should be used within 4 hours on a single patient based on concerns of reduced potency, contamination, and consequent infections. The purpose of this study was to determine the safety and effic...

Control charts are widely implemented in firms to establish and maintain statistical control of a process which leads to the improved quality and productivity. Design of control charts requires that the engineer selects a sample size, a sampling frequency and the control limits for the chart. In this paper, a possible combination of design parameters is considered as a decision making unit whic...

In the last decade, model predictive control (MPC) has been widely studied in power converters, such as voltage source inverters (VSIs). Unfortunately, MPC often presents a high computational burden that limits their applicability, especially when driving multilevel (MLIs) because of higher number switching combinations than two-level inverters. As result, some strategies have developed to redu...