• Title/Summary/Keyword: Process Control Charts

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Monitoring social networks based on transformation into categorical data

  • Lee, Joo Weon;Lee, Jaeheon
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.487-498
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    • 2022
  • Social network analysis (SNA) techniques have recently been developed to monitor and detect abnormal behaviors in social networks. As a useful tool for process monitoring, control charts are also useful for network monitoring. In this paper, the degree and closeness centrality measures, in which each has global and local perspectives, respectively, are applied to an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart and a multinomial cumulative sum (CUSUM) chart for monitoring undirected weighted networks. In general, EWMA charts monitor only one variable in a single chart, whereas multinomial CUSUM charts can monitor a categorical variable, in which several variables are transformed through classification rules, in a single chart. To monitor both degree centrality and closeness centrality simultaneously, we categorize them based on the average of each measure and then apply to the multinomial CUSUM chart. In this case, the global and local attributes of the network can be monitored simultaneously with a single chart. We also evaluate the performance of the proposed procedure through a simulation study.

Statistical Diagnosis(SPD) for Control of SARS Epidemic Situation of Beijing

  • Zhang, Gongxu;Sun, Jing
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2003
  • Under the strong leadership of Chinese Government to the anti-SARS struggle, the situation has been successfully controlled. Since May 1 of 2003, the Ministry of Health of China published daily the number of newly increased SARS patient of Beijing, the authors analyzed these data using $X_cs$$-R_scs$ cause-selecting control charts of Statistical Diagnosis(SPD) Theory. Data about number of newly increased SARS patient consists of two kinds of variation: random variation and tendency variation of SARS epidemic. It is concluded that SARS epidemic of Beijing was already controlled since May 9 of 2003.

A Note on the Performance of Pre-Control (Pre-Control의 수행도에 관한 소고)

  • Seo, Sun-Keun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.587-600
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This paper evaluates the performance of the pre-control(PC), an alternative to statistical process control techniques and compares with a control chart considering the tolerance of process. Methods: The previous studies for PC have drawbacks that PC with two linked stages, qualification and running, are discussed separately and independently. Hence this paper analyzes the performance of PC by integrating two stages. Results: Average outgoing quality limits to grasp the outcome of PC are provided by computational results for two process capability indexes, $C_p$ and $C_{pk}$ and the usefulness of PC from comparative experiments with modified control charts is commented. Conclusion: Helpful guidelines for quality managers to apply PC in practice and areas of process for PC to be more benefit are presented.

Determination of Quality Cost Policy under Multiple Assignable Causes (다중이상원인하의 경제적 품질비용 정책결정)

  • 김계완;김용필;박지연;윤덕균
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2003
  • At present, company has to produce a product that consumer like with a competitive price, a good quality, and a fitting time to supply. Process control and quality control are very important to supply with a product uniformly and inexpensively. Process control is given much weight in the quality control in manufacturing system. Statistical process controls(SPC) that are used in process generally have major impact on manufacturing, product design activities, and process development potentially. Control charts in statistical process control method can be interpreted the data from quality characteristics in production process and discriminated between chance variation and assignable variation in process. In addition, control chart can be used to monitor the process output and detect when changes in the inputs are required to bring the process back to an in-control state. The models that relate the influential inputs to process outputs help determine the nature and magnitude of the adjustments required. In this paper, the characteristic of product quality is monitored by control chart during the machining process and construction of quality control cycle is considered to divide into two types in this case that different assignable causes lead to shifts having different magnitudes. Then we are intended to find a process shift magnitude which has economical quality cost policy and are considered to quality cost functions to find a process shift magnitude. Those costs are categorized into the well-known categories of prevention, appraisal, and internal failure and external failure. This paper ends with numerical examples that demonstrate the usefulness of the model.

An Effective Control Chart for Monitoring Mean Shift in AR(1) Processes (AR(1) 공정에서의 효과적인 공정평균 관리도)

  • 원경수;강창욱;이배진
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.24 no.67
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2001
  • A standard assumption when using a control chart to monitor a process is that the observations from the process output are statistically independent. However, for many processes the observations are autocorrelated and this autocorrelation can have a significant effect on the performance of the control chart. In this paper, we consider combined control chart of monitoring the mean of a process in which the observations can be modeled as a first-order autoregressive process. The Shewhart control chart of residuals-EWMA control chart of the observations is considered and the method of combination is recommended. The performance of the proposed control chart is compared with the performance of other control charts using a simulation.

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An Effective Analyzing Method of Process Capability (효과적(效果的)인 공정능력(工程能力)의 해석기법(解析技法)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Song, Seo-Il;Hwang, Ui-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 1987
  • It is common that the process capability fluctuates as time passes, but concentrates to the mean value. To keep up process capability with given limits is vital to stability of process. Various control charts, especially ${\sigma}-chart$, have been used for analyzing process capability, but It sometimes can not give distinct answer. So this paper introduces another analyzing method by ARMA (autoregressive moving average) which is originally developed for forecasting, and demonstrates the analyzing methodology through a case study.

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Supplementary analyses of economic X over bar chart model

  • Jeon, Tae-Bo
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.111-124
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    • 1995
  • With the increasing interest of reducing process variation, statistical process control has served the pivotal tool in most industrial quality programs. In this study, system analyses have been performed associated with a cost incorporated version of a process control, a quadratic loss-based X over bar control chart model. Specifically, two issues, the capital/research investments for improvement of a system and the precision of a parameter estimation, have been addressed and discussed. Through the analysis of experimental results, we show that process variability is seen to be one of the most important sources of loss and quality improvement efforts should be directed to reduce this variability. We further derive the results that, even if the optimal designs may be sensitive, the model appears to be robust with regard to misspecification of parameters. The approach and discussion taken in this study provide a meaningful guide for proper process control. We conclude this study with providing general comments.

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A Design of Control Chart for Fraction Nonconforming Using Fuzzy Data (퍼지 데이터를 이용한 불량률(p) 관리도의 설계)

  • 김계완;서현수;윤덕균
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 2004
  • Using the p chart is not adequate in case that there are lots of data and it is difficult to divide into products conforming or nonconforming because of obscurity of binary classification. So we need to design a new control chart which represents obscure situation efficiently. This study deals with the method to performing arithmetic operation representing fuzzy data into fuzzy set by applying fuzzy set theory and designs a new control chart taking account of a concept of classification on the term set and membership function associated with term set.

Comparison of two sampling intervals and three sampling intervals VSI charts for monitoring both means and variances

  • Chang, Duk-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.997-1006
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    • 2015
  • In industrial quality control, when engineers use VSI control procedure they should consider both required time to signal and switching behaviors together in the case of production process changed. Up to the present, many researchers have studied fixed sampling interval (FSI) chart and variable sampling interval (VSI) chart in the points of average number of samples to signal (ANSS) and average time to signal (ATS). However, ANSS and ATS do not provide any switching information between different sampling intervals of VSI schemes. In this study, performances of two sampling intervals VSI chart and three sampling intervals VSI chart are evaluated and compared. The numerical results show that ANSS and ATS values of two sampling intervals VSI chart and three sampling interval VSI chart are similar regardless the amount of shifts. However, the values of switching behaviors including ANSW are less efficient in three sampling intervals VSI charts than in two sampling intervals VSI chart.

Design of Median Control Chart for Nonnormally Distributed Processes (비정규분포공정(非正規分布工程)에서 메디안특수관리도(特殊管理圖)의 모형설계(模型設計))

  • Sin, Yong-Baek
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.10-19
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    • 1987
  • Statistical control charts are useful tools to monitor and control the manufacturing processes and are widely used in most Korean industries. Many Korean companies, however, do not always obtain desired results from the traditional control charts by Shewhart such as the $\overline{X}$-chart, X-chart, $\widetilde{X}$-chart, etc. This is partly because the quality charterstics of the process are not distributed normally but are skewed due to the intermittent production, small lot size, etc. In the Shewhart $\overline{X}$-chart, which is the most widely used one in Korea, such skewed distributions make the plots to be inclined below or above the central line or outside the control limits although no assignable causes can be found. To overcome such shortcomings in nonnormally distributed processes, a distribution-free type of confidence interval can be used, which should be based on order statistics. This thesis is concerned with the design of control chart based on a sample median which is easy to use in practical situation and therefore properties for nonnormal distributions may be easily analyzed. Control limits and central lines are given for the more famous nonnormal distributions, such as Gamma, Beta, Lognormal, Weibull, Pareto, and Truncated-normal distributions.

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