Capability indices and conformance to specification: The motivation for using Cpm

Quality Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-88

  Denniston, Bill ^a  

^a Six Sigma Academy   (United States)

Author keywords

risk; risk; Capability indices; Cost of poor quality (COPQ); Cpk; Cpm; Critical to quality (CTQ); Defect; Defective; Design for Six Sigma (DFSS); Design specification; Key characteristic (KC); Process capability; Quadratic loss; Root sum squares (RSS); Six Sigma; Specification limits; Statistical design methods (SDM); Taguchi; Tolerances

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CAPABILITY INDICES; COST OF POOR QUALITY (COPQ); CRITICAL TO QUALITY (CTQ); DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA (DFSS); DESIGN SPECIFICATION; KEY CHARACTERISTIC (KC); PROCESS CAPABILITY; ROOT SUM SQUARE; STATISTICAL DESIGN METHOD (SDM);

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 29544440459     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110500406469     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bhote, K.R. (1991). World Class Quality Using Design of Experiments to Make it Happen. New York: AMACOM.
2. Bisgaard, S., Graves, S. (1997). A Negative Process Capability Index from Assembling Good Components? A Problem in Statistical Tolerancing, Quality Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 2. New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 409-414.
3. Boyles, R.A. (1991). The Taguchi Capability Index. Journal of Quality Technology 23(1):17-26. [CSA]
4. Chan, L.K., Cheng, S.W., Spiring, F.A. (1988). A New Measure of Process Capability. Cpm. Journal of Quality Technology 20(3):162-175. [CSA]
5. Creveling, C.M. (1997). Tolerance Design a Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.
6. Flaig, J.J. (2003). Process Capability Optimization, Quality Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 2. New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 233-242.
7. Kotz, S., Lovelace, C.R. (1988). Process Capability Indices in Theory and Practice. New York: Arnold.
8. Taguchi, G. (1998). Introduction to Quality Engineering: Designing Quality into Products and Processes. Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization.
9. Van der Heuvel, E.R., Ion, R.A. (2003). Capability Indices and the Proportion of Nonconforming Items, Quality Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 1. New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 427-439.
10. Wheeler, D.J. (1995). Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control. Knoxville, TN: SPC Press.