Abstract:Product reliability is a crucial component of the industrial production process. Several statistical process control techniques have been successfully employed in industrial manufacturing processes to observe changes in reliability-related quality variables. These methods, however, are only applicable to single-stage processes. In reality, manufacturing processes consist of several stages, and the quality variable of the previous stages influences the quality of the present stage. This interdependence between … Show more
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