A New Control Scheme for Phase‐II Monitoring of Simple Linear Profiles in Multistage Processes

In this paper, a new control scheme is proposed for Phase-II monitoring of simple linear profiles in multistage processes. In this scheme, an approach based on the U transformation is first applied to remove the effect of the cascade property involved in multistage processes. Then, a single max-EWMA-3 control statistic is derived based on the adjusted parameter estimates for simultaneous monitoring of all the parameters of a simple linear profile in each stage. Not only is the proposed scheme able to detect both increasing and decreasing shifts but it also has the feature of identifying the out-of-control parameter responsible for the source of process shift. Using extensive simulation experiments, the performance of the proposed method is evaluated and is compared with the ones of some other available methods for both weak and strong autocorrelations. Moreover, the diagnostic performance of the proposed method is evaluated. The results show that the proposed scheme performs well and works better than the competing methods. The application of the proposed method is illustrated at the end using a numerical example. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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