Six sigma rolled throughput yield

Quality Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-266

  Graves, Spencer ^a,b,c  

^a Productive Systems Engineering and PDF Solutions ^*  (United States)

^b PDF SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^c ASQ   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Defects per unit (DPU); Poisson distribution; Quality control (QC); Rolled throughput yield (RTY); Statistical process control (SPC); Total process yield (TPY); Total quality management (TQM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244390006     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/qen-100108683     Document Type: Article

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