Contributions to monitoring process for attributes. / Contribuições para o controle on-line de processos por atributos.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The quality control procedure for attributes, proposed by Taguchi et al. (1989), consists in inspecting a single item at every m produced items and, based on the result of each inspection, deciding weather the non-conforming fraction has increased or not. If an inspected item is declared non-conforming, the process is stopped and adjusted, assuming that it has changed to out-of-control condition. Once: i) the inspection system is subject to misclassification and it is possible to carry out repetitive classifications in the inspected item; ii) the non-conforming fraction, when the process is out-of-control, can be described by y(x); iii) the decision about stopping the process can be based on last h inspections, a model which considers those points is developed. Using properties of ergodic Markov chains, the average cost expression is calculated and can be minimized by parameters beyond m: number of repetitive classifications (r); minimum number of classifications as conforming to declare an item as conforming (s); number of inspections taken into account (h) and stopping criteria (u). The results obtained show that: repetitive classifications of the inspected item can be a viable option if only one item is used to decide about the process condition; a finite Markov chain can be used to represent the control procedure in presence of a function y(x); deciding about the process condition based on last h inspections has a significant impact on the average cost.

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quality deterioration control procedure for attributes repetitive classifications markov chain controle de processos

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