Abstract
Advancement in technology brings a revolutionary change in the quality of the final product or items. Most of the manufacturing processes produce a large number of conforming items along with a few non-conforming items. For real-time monitoring of these highly efficient processes, monitoring of time-between-events is a well-known approach adopted in the literature of statistical process control. Usually, it is assumed that the time-between-events follows an exponential or gamma distribution. However, the generalized gamma distribution is the most popular choice for modelling skewed data. In this article, we consider a two-sided monitoring scheme based on the generalized gamma distribution. Two-sided monitoring schemes for skewed distributions often encounter bias in its run length properties. Therefore, we address this problem with modified control limits in a more general distributional setup. A Monte Carlo simulation-based study is designed, and results showed encouraging performance properties. A couple of practical applications in connection to monitoring renewable energy and coal mine explosions have been discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 718-739 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Quality Technology & Quantitative Management |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Jul 2021 |
Keywords
- average time to sognal
- generalized gamma distribution
- high-quality processes
- statistical process control
- time-between-events