Cumulative Sum Control Charts for Monitoring Weibull-distributed Time Between Events

Cumulative Sum Control Charts for Monitoring Weibull-distributed Time Between Events

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Article ID: iaor201526558
Volume: 31
Issue: 5
Start Page Number: 839
End Page Number: 849
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Journal: Quality and Reliability Engineering International
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: control, statistics: distributions
Abstract:

The Weibull distribution can be used to effectively model many different failure mechanisms due to its inherent flexibility through the appropriate selection of a shape and a scale parameter. In this paper, we evaluate and compare the performance of three cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charts to monitor Weibull‐distributed time‐between‐event observations. The first two methods are the Weibull CUSUM chart and the exponential CUSUM (ECUSUM) chart. The latter is considered in literature to be robust to the assumption of the exponential distribution when observations have a Weibull distribution. For the third CUSUM chart included in this study, an adjustment in the design of the ECUSUM chart is used to account for the true underlying time‐between‐event distribution. This adjustment allows for the adjusted ECUSUM chart to be directly comparable to the Weibull CUSUM chart. By comparing the zero‐state average run length and average time to signal performance of the three charts, the ECUSUM chart is shown to be much less robust to departures from the exponential distribution than was previously claimed in the literature. We demonstrate the advantages of using one of the other two charts, which show surprisingly similar performance.

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