CEP ONLINE: A WEB-ORIENTED EXPERT SYSTEM FOR STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

ABSTRACT In this paper, a new software for Statistical Process Control (SPC) is proposed. The system, the so-called CEP Online, was developed based on statistical computing resources of well-known free softwares, such as HTML, PHP, R and MySQL under an online server with operating system Linux Ubuntu. The main uni and multivariate SPC tools are available for monitoring and evaluation of manufacturing and non-manufacturing production processes over time. Some advantages of the new software are: (i) low operational cost, since it is cloud-based, only needing a computer connected to the Internet;...