(Correction made here after initial online publication.) Today's manufacturing environment has changed since the time when control chart methods were originally introduced. Sequentially observed data are much more common. Serial correlation can seriously affect the performance of the traditional control charts. In this article we derive explicit easy-to-use expressions of the variance of an EWM...

A simple algorithm is introduced for computing the run length distribution of a monitoring scheme combining a Shewhart chart with an Exponentially Weighted Moving Average control chart. The algorithm is based on the numerical approximation of the integral equations and integral recurrence relations related to the run-length distribution. In particular, a modified Clenshaw-Curtis quadrature rule...

Micro-manufacturing processes are characterized by high process variability and an increased significance of measurement uncertainty in relation to tight tolerance specifications. Therefore, an approach that separates the superposition of measurement and manufacturing variation is demanded. A novel design for a quality control chart that makes it possible to monitor, control and extract measure...

Nonparametric control charts are useful in statistical process control (SPC) when there is a lack of or limited knowledge about the underlying process distribution, especially when the process measurement is multivariate. This paper develops a new multivariate self-starting methodology for monitoring location parameters. It is based on adapting the multivariate spatial rank to on-line sequentia...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the application of forecasting models along with the use of residual control charts to assess production processes whose samples have autocorrelation characteristics. The main objective is to determine the efficiency of control charts for individual observations (CCIO) and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) charts when they are applied to res...

Statistical process control (SPC) is an approach to evaluate processes whether they are in statistical control or not. For this aim, control charts are generally used. Since sample data may include uncertainties coming from measurement systems and environmental conditions, fuzzy numbers and/or linguistic variables can be used to capture these uncertainties. In this paper, one of the most popula...