Profile charts for monitoring lumber manufacturing using laser range sensor data

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 224-240

  Staudhammer, Christina ^a,c   Maness, Thomas C ^b,d,e   Kozak, Robert A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Center for Latin American Studies   (United States)

^d Faculty of Forestry   (Canada)

^e Quality Professionals' Resource Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Linear regression; Nonnormal data; Profile monitoring; Quantile chart; Sawing defects; Shewhart control chart; SPC; Wood processing

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SAWING; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NONNORMAL DATA; PROFILE MONITORING; QUANTILE CHART; SAWING DEFECTS; SHEWHART CONTROL CHART; WOOD PROCESSING;

LUMBER;

LASERS; LUMBER; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 34547283365     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2007.11917690     Document Type: Article

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