The most popular tool used in the industry for monitoring a process is the Shewhart control chart. The major disadvantage of the Shewhart control chart is that it is not very efficient in detecting small process average shifts. To increase the sensitivity of Shewhart control charts to small shifts additional supplementary runs rules has been suggested. In this paper we introduce and study the m...

While the assumption of normality is required for the validity ofmost of the available control charts for jointmonitoring of unknown location and scale parameters, we propose and study a distribution-free Shewhart-type chart based on the Cucconi statistic, called the Shewhart-Cucconi (SC) chart. We also propose a follow-up diagnostic procedure useful to determine the type of shift the process m...

For an improved monitoring of process parameters, it is generally desirable to have ef?cient designs of control charting structures. The addition of Shewhart control limits to the cumulative sum (CUSUM) control chart is a simple monitoring scheme sensitive to wide range of mean shifts. To improve the detection ability of the combined Shewhart–CUSUM control chart to off-target processes, we deve...

The Shewhart and the Bonferroni-adjustment S control charts are usually applied to monitor the standard deviation of a quality characteristic. The control limits of these charts are constructed using approximately the normal distribution in case that the standard deviation parameter is known or unknown. In this paper, we establish a new S chart that is based approximately on the normal distribu...

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...

BACKGROUND Time series charts are increasingly used by clinical teams to monitor their performance, but statistical control charts are not widely used, partly due to uncertainty about which chart to use. Although there is a large literature on methods, there are few systematic comparisons of charts for detecting changes in rates of binary clinical performance data. METHODS We compared four co...

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the typing of foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) antigen was employed for the routine laboratory diagnosis of FMD at a regional veterinary laboratory in northern Thailand. An objective procedure was developed to monitor the test performance of the ELISA, using absolute test control limits in a Shewhart-CUSUM (cumulative sum) control chart method...

An effective control scheme can be instrumental in increasing productivity and reducing cost. While facing an outlier-existing process, using the mean ( X ) control chart and the range (R) control chart for monitoring the process mean and variance will lead to high level false alarms. Recently, some median ( X~ ) control charts, such as the X~ Shewhart control chart, the exponentially weighted ...