Economic design of an X chart for short-run production

Linda Lee Ho and Anderson Laécio Galindo Trindade

International Journal of Production Economics, 2009, vol. 120, issue 2, 613-624

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present an economical design of an X chart for a short-run production. The process mean starts equal to [mu]0 (in-control, State I) and in a random time it shifts to [mu]1>[mu]0 (out-of-control, State II). The monitoring procedure consists of inspecting a single item at every m produced ones. If the measurement of the quality characteristic does not meet the control limits, the process is stopped, adjusted, and additional (r-1) items are inspected retrospectively. The probabilistic model was developed considering only shifts in the process mean. A direct search technique is applied to find the optimum parameters which minimizes the expected cost function. Numerical examples illustrate the proposed procedure.

Keywords: Short-run; production; On-line; process; control; Process; control; for; variables; Markov; chain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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