Nonparametric control chart is useful when the underlying distribution is unknown, or is not likely to be normal. In this paper, we provide a sequential rank-based nonparametric adaptive EWMA (NAE) control chart for detecting the persistent shift in the location parameter. This NAE chart is a self-starting scheme and thus can be used to monitor processes at the start-up stages rather than waiti...

Control charts based on generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) are attractive from both theoretical and practical points of view.Most of the existingworks in the literature focusing on the detection of the process mean and variance are almost based on the assumption that the shifts remain constant over time. The case of the patterned mean and variance changes may not be well discussed. In thi...

Adaptive Cumulative SUM charts (ACUSUM) have been recently proposed for providing an overall good detection over a range of mean shift sizes. The basic idea of the ACUSUM chart is to first adaptively update the reference value based on an Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) estimate and then to assign a weight on it using a certain type of weighting function. A linear weighting functio...

We propose a new multivariate CUSUM control chart, which is based on selfadaption of its reference value according to the information of current process readings, to quickly detect the multivariate process mean shifts. By specifying the minimum magnitude of the process mean shift in terms of its non-centrality parameter, our proposed control chart can achieve an overall performance for detectin...

Nonparametric profile monitoring (NPM) is for monitoring over time a functional relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables when the relationship is too complicated to be specified parametrically. It is widely used in industry for the purpose of quality control of a process. Existing NPM approaches require a fundamental assumption that design points within a p...

The most well-known uni-arribute control chart used to monitor the number of nonconformities per unit is the Shewhart type C-chart. In this paper, a new method is proposed in an attempt to reduce the false alarm rate in the C-chart. To do this, the decision on beliefs (DOB) concept is first uti [1] Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]   lized to design an iterative method, where...

The recently introduced triple exponentially weighted moving average (TEWMA) chart is the extended form of classical EWMA and double (DEWMA) charts. On other hand, auxiliary information-based (AIB) homogeneously ( HWMA AIB ) used for monitoring process location shifts ef...

Statistical process control methods for monitoring processes with univariate ormultivariate measurements are used widely when the quality variables fit to known probabilitydistributions. Some processes, however, are better characterized by a profile or a function of qualityvariables. For each profile, it is assumed that a collection of data on the response variable along withthe values of the c...