CH - 9 Statistical Process Control
CH - 9 Statistical Process Control
CH - 9 Statistical Process Control
Dimension Restaurant
1. Tangibles Were the facilities clean, personnel neat?
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Control Chart
• Control Chart
• Purpose: to monitor process output to see if
it is random
• A time ordered plot of representative sample
statistics obtained from an on going process
(e.g. sample means)
• Upper and lower control limits define the
range of acceptable variation
Control Chart
Mean
Normal variation
due to chance
LCL
Abnormal variation
due to assignable sources
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Sample number
Control Chart
= Standard deviation
99.74%
Observations from Sample Distribution
UCL
LCL
1 2 3 4
Sample number
Types of Control Charts
When variable (data) is continuous When variable (data) is dichotomous
p z p where,
UCL = D4 R
X z c z c _ where
n p(1 − p)
LCL = D3 R p =
or n
X A2 R c=
f i
n
▪ n = number of observations in the sample (not the number of samples)
▪ A2 = Constant to provide 3 sigma limits of the sample mean for a given sample size
▪D3, D4 = constant that provide 3 SD (3 sigma) limits for a given sample size
▪In control line plot only samples mean not all observations.
Control Charts for Continuous Variables
Variables generate data that are measured.
• Mean control charts
• Used to monitor the central tendency of a
process.
• Mean _ Chart : X z or X A2 R
n
• Range control charts
• Used to monitor the process dispersion
• R charts UCL = D4 R
LCL = D3 R
Mean and Range Charts
(process mean is
shifting upward)
Sampling
Distribution
UCL
UCL
Does not
R-chart
detect shift
LCL
Mean and Range Charts
Sampling
Distribution (process variability is increasing)
UCL
UCL
• (a) Compute the mean wait, the mean range, and determine the
control limits for the mean and the range and chart them.
• (b) Are the measurements within the control limits? Interpret the
chart.
Types of Control Charts
When variable (data) is continuous When variable (data) is dichotomous
p z p where,
UCL = D4 R
X z c z c _ where
n p(1 − p)
LCL = D3 R p =
or n
X A2 R c=
f i
n
▪ n = number of observations in the sample (not the number of samples)
▪ A2 = Constant to provide 3 sigma limits of the sample mean for a given sample size
▪D3, D4 = constant that provide 3 SD (3 sigma) limits for a given sample size
▪In control line plot only samples mean not all observations.
Control Chart for Attributes/dichotomous
variable
Attributes generate data that are counted.
Control _ lim it = p z p k
n A2 D3 D4
2 1.880 0 3.267
3 1.023 0 2.575
4 0.729 0 2.282
5 0.577 0 2.115
6 0.483 0 2.004