The extent to which products meet specifications needs to be systematically monitored in a production process. Product quality will typically be defined by two quantities: deviations from stated ...

This article is focused on introducing a control chart technique using relative standard deviation (RSD) statistics (i.e., RSD chart); in other words, a coefficient of variation chart for continued ...

Part two of this three-part series reveals control technology concepts to reduce process variability and increase profitability ...

Performance metrics for processes are an area of much regulatory interest currently. There isn’t always a readily available clear definition of what is needed, however, and guidance from regulators is ...

The Shewhart chart is named after Walter A. Shewhart (1891-1967), a physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who introduced the method in 1924 and elaborated upon it in his book Economic Control ...