Monitoring capability indices using an EWMA approach

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 769-790

  Castagliola, Philippe ^a   Vännman, Kerstin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capability index; EWMA; Logarithmic transformation; Unstable process

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CAPABILITY INDEX; EWMA; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATION; UNSTABLE PROCESS;

PROCESS MONITORING;

EID: 35948977285     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.838     Document Type: Article

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