Capability indices measure the performance of a process. Although process yield is the primary focus on the performance criteria, the " ( , ) p C u v indices combine process yield and process centering. With this compromise, there is no direct link between the process yield and these indices, but literature provides lower and upper bounds for the process yield. However errors in the proposed re...

A process is a unique combination of manpower, machines, methods and materials in providing a product or service. Process capability indices have been used in the manufacturing industry to provide quantitative measures of process potential and performance. High quality production provides advantages such as cost saving, reduced scrap or remanufacturing, higher yield and increased customer satis...

A new economic approach to process capability assessment is presented, which differs from the commonly used engineering metrics. The proposed metric consists of two economic capability measures – the expected profit and the variation in profit of the process. This dual economic metric offers a number of significant advantages over other engineering or economic metrics used in process capability...

Greenwich and Jahr-Schaffrath (1995) introduced an index Cpp, a simple transformation of the index C∗ pm, which provides an uncontaminated separation between information concerning the process accuracy and process precision. Unfortunately, the index Cpp inconsistently measures process capability in many cases and thus reflects process potential and performance inaccurately. In this paper, we co...

The wind’s effectiveness was compared in different points of a watershed using a quantity called The Wind Shelter Index.The wind’s effectiveness was compared in different points of a watershed using a quantity called The Wind Shelter Index. It is necessary to choose a distance called the effective distance in the process of this index determination. The criterion already used for this purpose w...

The properties of Cpmk in the presence of asymmetric specification limits are discussed. It is shown that Cpmk tends to zero as the process variation increases and vice versa. Furthermore, if the process variation is small, Cpmk has its maximum near the target value but the maximum moves towards the specification midpoint as the variation increases. This is a desirable property as for large var...

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