Running a process with poor capability

Quality Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 505-509

  Wen, Decheng ^a,c   Mergen, A Erhan ^b,d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Comm of Quality Management of China ^*  (China)

^d American Society for Quality   (India)

Author keywords

Cost of exceeding specification limits; Economically optimum location for the process mean; Process capability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001272124     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982119908919270     Document Type: Article

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