Article ID: | iaor201112619 |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 499 |
End Page Number: | 514 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2011 |
Journal: | Quality and Reliability Engineering International |
Authors: | Niaki Seyed Taghi Akhavan, Ostadsharif Memar Ahmad |
Keywords: | control charts |
A traditional approach to monitor both the location and the scale parameters of a quality characteristic is to use two separate control charts. These schemes have some difficulties in concurrent tracking and interpretation. To overcome these difficulties, some researchers have proposed schemes consisting of only one chart. However, none of these schemes is designed to work with individual observations. In this research, an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA)- based control chart that plots only one statistic at a time is proposed to simultaneously monitor the mean and variability with individual observations. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared with one of the two other existing combination charts by simulation. The results show that in general the proposed chart has a significantly better performance than the other combination charts.