Effect of nonnormality on the economic design of warning limit X̄ charts

Quality Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 567-575

  Chou, Chao Yu ^a   Chen, Chung Ho ^b   Liu, Hui Rong ^c  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Control chart; Economic design; Nonnormality; Orthogonal array; Warning limit

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

CONTOL CHART TECHNIQUE; CONTROL LIMIT COEFFICIENT; COST MODEL; ECONOMIC DESIGN; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; ORTHOGONAL ARRAY; WARNING LIMIT COEFFICINET;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 4344612201     PISSN: 03639045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/QEN-120038018     Document Type: Article

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