Abstract
Most applications of the EWMA control chart for monitoring processes depend on detecting shifts in the process mean. The problem of detecting an increase in process variability, which can also strongly affect the quality of products, is perhaps more important. When a process moves from the pilot phase to the production phase, the mean may not shift but the variation will probably increase because new sources of variation are introduced, including new people and materials. A simulation is performed to evaluate the ARL to false alarm and to monitor the change in the process variability of the EWMA control chart and the GWMA control chart. An extensive comparison reveals that the GWMA control chart is more sensitive than the EWMA control chart in monitoring the variance of a process. The results of this study can be applied to monitor the process variability in automated industries.
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Sheu, SH., Tai, SH. Generally weighted moving average control chart for monitoring process variability. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 30, 452–458 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-005-0091-0
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