Using one EWMA chart to jointly monitor the process mean and variance

Two control charts are usually used to monitor the process mean and variance separately. The mean is monitored using the [`(X)]{\bar{{X}}} chart while the variance using either the standard deviation, S chart, or the range, R chart. Recently, numerous single variable charts are proposed to jointly monitor the mean and variance. Most approaches transform the sample mean and sample variance into two statistics, each having a standard scale, and either plotting them on the same chart or combining them into a single statistic to be plotted on a chart. The R chart is more widely used than the S chart but no attempt is made to combine the [`(X)]{\bar{{X}}} and R charts in the construction of a single variable chart and to study its properties and performance. In this paper, we transform the [`(X)]{\bar{{X}}} and R statistics into two standard normal random variables, used in the computation of two corresponding exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) statistics, which are then merged into a single plotting statistic for the proposed chart, called the EWMA [`(X)]-R{\bar{{X}}-R} chart.     

自相关过程的改进型EWMA控制图

常规指数加权移动平均(EWMA)控制图的假设前提是观测数据相互独立,但在实际生产过程中,数据相关违背假设条件。本文首先讨论了序列自相关对常规EWMA控制图的影响,结果表明其检测效能降低。因此,重新估计了平稳过程的σz并在此基础上建立了改进型EWMA控制图。然后运用平均链长比较了改进型EWMA控制图与休哈特图和残差控制图,模拟研究说明当过程非强相关且过程均值发生中小偏移条件下。改进型EWMA控制图的检测效果要优于其他两种控制图。最后,通过一个实例验证了该方法的有效性。     

可变抽样区间的二项EWMA控制图

在制造过程中,对产品的不合格品数进行监控时,通常选用计数性控制图-np图,它是基于过程服从二项分布建立的,一般对于过程中出现的较大波动效果明显。为了提高控制图对不合格品数较小波动的监控效果,本文设计了产品不合格品数服从二项分布的EWMA控制图。提出可变抽样区间的二项EWMA控制图,并采用马可夫链法计算其平均报警时间。对固定抽样区间以及可变抽样区间二项EWMA控制图对比研究,表明当过程失控时,可变抽样区间二项EWMA控制图具有较小的失控平均报警时间,能够迅速监测出过程中的异常波动,明显优于固定抽样区间的二项EWMA控制图。     

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??A single distribution-free (nonparametric) Phase II exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart based on the Cucconi statistic, referred to as the EWMA-Cucconi (EC) chart, is considered here for simultaneously monitoring shifts in the unknown location and scale parameters of a univariate continuous process. A comparison with some other existing nonparametric EWMA charts is presented in terms of the average, the standard deviation and some percentiles of the run length distribution. Numerical results based on Monte Carlo analysis show that the EC chart provides quite a satisfactory performance. The effect of the Phase I (reference) sample size on the IC performance of the EC chart is studied in detail. The application of the EC chart is illustrated by two real data examples.     

A Distribution-Free Phase II EWMA Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale

A single distribution-free (nonparametric) Phase II exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart based on the Cucconi statistic, referred to as the EWMA-Cucconi (EC) chart, is considered here for simultaneously monitoring shifts in the unknown location and scale parameters of a univariate continuous process. A comparison with some other existing nonparametric EWMA charts is presented in terms of the average, the standard deviation and some percentiles of the run length distribution. Numerical results based on Monte Carlo analysis show that the EC chart provides quite a satisfactory performance. The effect of the Phase I (reference) sample size on the IC performance of the EC chart is studied in detail. The application of the EC chart is illustrated by two real data examples.     

Economic design of attribute np control charts using a variable sampling policy

To use a control chart, the quality engineer should specify three decision variables, namely the sample size, the sampling interval and the critical region of the chart. A significant part of recent research relaxed the constraint of using fixed design parameters to open the way to a new type of control charts called adaptive ones where at least one of the decision variables may change in real time based on the last data information. These adaptive schemes have proven their effectiveness from economical and statistical point of views. In this paper, the economic design of an attribute np control chart using a variable sampling interval (VSI) is treated. A sensitivity analysis is conducted to search for optimal design parameters minimizing the expected total cost per hour and to reveal the impact of the process and cost parameters on the behavior of optimal solutions. An economic comparison between the classical np chart, variable sample size (VSS) np control chart and VSI chart is conducted. It is found that switching from the classical attribute chart to the VSI sampling strategy results in notable cost savings and in reduction of the average time to signal and the average number of false alarms. In most cases of the sensitivity analysis, the VSI np chart outperforms the VSS np chart based on economical and statistical considerations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Continuity Adjustment for Control Charts for Attributes

A unified approach is proposed for making a continuity adjustment on some control charts for attributes, e.g., np-chart and c-chart. through adding a uniform (0,1) random observation to the conventional sample statistic (e.g., npi and ci). The adjusted sample statistic then has a continuous distribution. Consequently, given any Type I risk a (the probability that the sample statistic is on or beyond the control limits), control charts achieving the exact value of a can be readily constructed. Guidelines are given for when to use the continuity adjustment control chart, the conventional Shewhart control chart (with ±3 standard deviations control limits), and the control chart based on the exact distribution of the sample statistic before adjustment.     

Multivariate Bayesian process control for a finite production run

Most industrial products and processes are characterized by several, typically correlated measurable variables, which jointly describe the product or process quality. Various control charts such as Hotelling’s T², EWMA and CUSUM charts have been developed for multivariate quality control, where the values of the chart parameters, namely the sample size, sampling interval and the control limits are determined to satisfy given economic and/or statistical requirements. It is well known that this traditional non-Bayesian approach to a control chart design is not optimal, but very few results regarding the form of the optimal Bayesian control policy have appeared in the literature, all limited to a univariate chart design. In this paper, we consider a multivariate Bayesian process mean control problem for a finite production run under the assumption that the observations are values of independent, normally distributed vectors of random variables. The problem is formulated in the POMDP (partially observable Markov decision process) framework and the objective is to determine a control policy minimizing the total expected cost. It is proved that under standard operating and cost assumptions the control limit policy is optimal. Cost comparisons with the benchmark chi-squared chart and the MEWMA chart show that the Bayesian chart is highly cost effective, the savings are larger for smaller values of the critical Mahalanobis distance between the in-control and out-of-control process mean.     

稀土分离联产品质量控制研究

以稀土分离企业为背景,抽取联产品特点及质量属性,绘制单一产品的指数加权移动平均控制图和联产品的多元残差T²控制图,并将两类控制图进行对比分析,分析表明和EWMA控制图相比,联产品多元残差T²控制图能降低控制图虚发警报的概率。针对多元残差T²控制图发现的异常模式,采用支持向量机模型对异常模式进行分类处理,寻找分类规则,构造PSO-SVM分类器,运用粒子群算法对SVM参数寻优,并对得出的结果进行对比分析。分析表明该分类器能提高分类正确率,模式识别可以用于诊断稀土企业引起联产品多元残差T²控制图出现异常的原因,从而提高过程质量管理水平。     

Joint economic design of EWMA control charts for mean and variance

Control charts with exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) statistics (mean and variance) are used to jointly monitor the mean and variance of a process. An EWMA cost minimization model is presented to design the joint control scheme based on pure economic or both economic and statistical performance criteria. The pure economic model is extended to the economic-statistical design by adding constraints associated with in-control and out-of-control average run lengths. The quality related production costs are calculated using Taguchi’s quadratic loss function. The optimal values of smoothing constants, sampling interval, sample size, and control chart limits are determined by using a numerical search method. The average run length of the control scheme is computed by using the Markov chain approach. Computational study indicates that optimal sample sizes decrease as the magnitudes of shifts in mean and/or variance increase, and higher values of quality loss coefficient lead to shorter sampling intervals. The sensitivity analysis results regarding the effects of various inputs on the chart parameters provide useful guidelines for designing an EWMA-based process control scheme when there exists an assignable cause generating concurrent changes in process mean and variance.     

Monitoring process variability using auxiliary information

In this study a Shewhart type control chart namely V _r chart is proposed for improved monitoring of process variability (targeting large shifts) of a quality characteristic of interest Y. The proposed control chart is based on regression type estimator of variance using a single auxiliary variable X. It is assumed that (Y, X) follow a bivariate normal distribution. The design structure of V _r chart is developed and its comparison is made with the well-known Shewhart control chart namely S ² chart used for the same purpose. Using power curves as a performance measure it is observed that V _r chart outperforms the S ² chart for detecting moderate to large shifts, which is main target of Shewhart type control charts, in process variability under certain conditions on ρ _yx . These efficiency conditions on ρ _yx are also obtained for V _r chart in this study.     

可变抽样区间几何EWMA控制图的经济设计

为了降低生产过程周期成本,本文对单位缺陷数服从几何分布时,可变抽样区间的指数加权移动平均(EWMA)控制图进行经济设计。首先建立可变抽样区间几何EWMA控制图的经济模型,使单位时间期望费用最小来确定参数的最优值;其次用遗传算法来寻找经济模型的最优解;最后对可变抽样区间几何EWMA控制图的经济模型进行灵敏度分析和最优性分析。研究结果表明单位时间期望费用分别随着异常原因发生的频率、过程失控时单位时间的质量费用、发现异常原因的时间期望值和纠正过程的时间期望值的增大而增大。     

具有可变样本容量的非正态EWMA控制图

为了提高控制图的监控效率,本文研究非正态分布下,EWMA控制图的可变样本容量设计问题。首先利用Burr分布近似各种非正态分布,构造可变样本容量的非正态EWMA控制图;其次运用马尓科夫链法计算可变样本容量非正态EWMA控制图的平均运行长度;然后与传统的非正态EWMA控制图进行比较得出:当过程中出现小波动时,可变样本容量的非正态EWMA控制图能够更快地发现过程中的异常波动,具有较小的平均运行长度,其监控效率明显优于传统的非正态EWMA控制图。     

A process variability control chart

In this study a Shewhart type control chart namely the V _t chart, is proposed for improved monitoring of the process variability of a quality characteristic of interest Y. The proposed control chart is based on the ratio type estimator of the variance using a single auxiliary variable X. It is assumed that (Y, X) follows a bivariate normal distribution. The design structure of the V _t chart is developed for Phase-I quality control and its comparison is made with those of the S ² chart (a well-known Shewhart control chart) and the V _r chart (a Shewhart type control chart proposed by Riaz (Comput Stat, 2008a) used for the same purpose. It is observed that the proposed V _t chart outperforms the S ² and V _r charts, in terms of discriminatory power, for detecting moderate to large shifts in the process variability. It is observed that the performance of the V _t chart keeps improving with an increase in |ρ _yx | , where ρ _yx is the correlation between Y and X.     

监测均值变动的多重控制图方法

本文证明了当受控平均运行长度充分大时, 多重控制图有两个优点: 一是相比较GLR (广义似然比) 和GEWMA (广义指数权重移动平均)控制图它可以大大降低运算的复杂性; 二是能够较快地监测均值变化的大小. 数值模拟也表明: 多重控制图不仅优于其构成的单个控制图, 而且在监测未知的均值变动方面也优于单个的CUSUM, EWMA, 多重EWMA和GLR控制图.     

Equilibrium states for factor maps between subshifts

Let π:X→Y be a factor map, where (X,σX) and (Y,σY) are subshifts over finite alphabets. Assume that X satisfies weak specification. Let a=(a₁,a₂)∈R² with a₁>0 and a₂?0. Let f be a continuous function on X with sufficient regularity (Hölder continuity, for instance). We show that there is a unique shift invariant measure μ on X that maximizes . In particular, taking f≡0 we see that there is a unique invariant measure μ on X that maximizes the weighted entropy a₁hμ(σX)+a₂hμ°π−1(σY), which answers an open question raised by Gatzouras and Peres (1996) in [15]. An extension is given to high dimensional cases. As an application, we show that for each compact invariant set K on the k-torus under a diagonal endomorphism, if the symbolic coding of K satisfies weak specification, then there is a unique invariant measure μ supported on K so that dimHμ=dimHK.     

Aut(X, σ) and Aut(X/σ) are not isomorphic in the category of surfaces with nodes

A symmetric Riemann surface is a pair (X,?σ) where X is a Riemann surface and?σ?is an anticonformal involution. We denote by Aut(X,?σ) the subgroup of Aut(X) defined by the automorphisms commuting with σ. There is a natural isomorphism between Aut(X,?σ) and Aut(X/σ). In this article we shall show that this isomorphism does not stand if X is a Riemann surface with nodes.     

自相关对常规控制图影响的模拟研究与案例分析

常规统计控制图的基本假设前提是观测值独立同分布,而在实际生产过程中,质量指标值常表现出自相关现象,违背独立性假定。本文运用平均链长(ARL)研究自相关过程为AR(1)时对常规控制图的影响,并比较了常规控制图和残差控制图对序列相关过程的控制效果。模拟结果和实例分析表明:当过程序列相关时,使用常规作图法估计出的标准差是有偏的,致使控制限设置错误和常规控制图检测能力降低。因此,在一些统计过程控制中,须考虑自相关现象并采用适当的控制图方法。