GRÁFICOS ADAPTATIVOS DE CONTROL DE PROCESO POR ATRIBUTOS / GRÁFICOS ADAPTATIVOS DE CONTROLE DE PROCESSO POR ATRIBUTOS / ADAPTIVE CONTROL CHARTS FOR ATTRIBUTES

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000

RESUMO

It is important to investigate ways to improve the efficiency of the statistical control charts for attributes, because the controls for attributes typically require very large sample sizes for quick detection of changes in the process, and these sample sizes can be extremely undesirable or eventually unfeasible in many practical situations. The adaptive schemes, which vary one or more parameters of the control charts (sample size, sampling interval and control limit width) according to the most recent information about the process (the position of the last sample point in the chart), were proven to be more efficient than the traditional (fixed parameters) scheme in detecting small to moderate changes in the process. Although there is a large volume of work on adaptive schemes applied to variables control charts, there is a lack of adaptive schemes for control charts for attributes in the literature, despite the already mentioned need and opportunity of investigating ways to improve the efficiency of the statistical control charts for attributes. This is the motivation of this work. A fully adaptive scheme is proposed for both np and charts. The mathematical model is developed for the measures of performance; this model was implemented in a spreadsheet, and used for the quantitative evaluation of the scheme efficiency, and comparison with the fixed-parameter (traditional) scheme and also with other adaptive schemes, with only one or two parameters variable. The proposed scheme proved to be significantly more efficient in the majority of the situations of interest, answering the necessity of finding ways to improve the efficiency of control charts for attributes. Additional results of this work are: the identification of the situations in which each of the schemes here analyzed is the most efficient (or, the other way around: indication of the most efficient scheme for each situation), and a set of recommended values for the design parameters for each scheme, in each situation. These results are meant to make easier the adoption of the scheme in practice, increasing thereby its usefulness.

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adaptable graphics graficos adaptativos attributes statistical process control atributos controle estatistico de processos

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