The funnel experiment: The Markov-based SPC approach

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 899-913

  Singer, Gonen ^a   Ben Gal, Irad ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Change point; Process monitoring; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PROCESS MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHANGE POINTS; FEEDBACK RULES; NONLINEAR PROCESSES; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC);

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 37249093099     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.852     Document Type: Article

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