T2 control charts with variable dimension

Abstract:

This paper proposes a new multivariate T² control chart, termed the variable dimension T² (VDT²) chart, in which the number of monitored quality characteristics is variable. When there are p related variables to be monitored, the approach is useful if there is a subset of p1 variables that are easy and/or inexpensive to measure, while the remaining variables are difficult and/or expensive to measure but provide additional useful information on whether the process mean has shifted. The VDT² chart adaptively determines the number of variables to be monitored (either p1 or p) depending on the last value of the charted statistic. We provide Windows®-based software to optimize the parameters of the control chart using a Markov chain model to compute the performance measures and a genetic algorithm to conduct the optimization. The optimized VDT² chart is quite powerful, and we demonstrate the somewhat surprising result that it detects mean shifts faster than a standard T² chart for which all p variables are always measured, while also reducing sampling costs.

Año de publicación:

2012

Keywords:

• multivariate
• Dimension
• Adaptive control
• optimization
• Statistical process control

Fuente:

scopus

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