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Traditional multivariate control charts such as Hotelling’s χ 2 and T 2 control charts are designed to monitor vectors of variable quality characteristics. However, in certain situations, data are expressed in linguistic terms and, under these circumstances, variable or attribute multivariate control charts are not suitable choices for monitoring purposes. Fuzzy multivariate control charts such as fuzzy Hotelling’s T 2 could be considered as efficient tools to overcome the problems of linguistic observations. The purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (F-MEWMA) control chart. In this paper, multivariate statistical quality control and fuzzy set theory are combined to develop the proposed method. Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic are powerful mathematical tools for modeling uncertain systems in industry, nature, and humanity. Through a numerical example, the performance of the proposed control chart was compared to the fuzzy Hotelling’s T 2 control chart. Results indicate uniformly superior performance of the F-MEWMA control chart over Hotelling’s T 2 control chart.
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Alipour, H., Noorossana, R. Fuzzy multivariate exponentially weighted moving average control chart. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 48, 1001–1007 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-009-2365-4
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