Determining and assessing process capability for engineers and manufacturing / / Fred Spiring

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958584703321
• Autore: Spiring Fred
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010
• ISBN: 1-61209-900-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Collana: Quality control engineering and manufacturing
• Disciplina: 658.5
• Soggetti: Process control; Process control - Statistical methods; Manufacturing processes
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- DETERMINING AND ASSESSING PROCESS CAPABILITY FOR ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURING -- DETERMINING AND ASSESSING PROCESS CAPABILITY FOR ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURING -- CONTENTS -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- ASSESSING PROCESS CAPABILITY -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 2 CONDUCTING A CAPABILITY STUDY -- ESTABLISHING CAPABILITY GOALS -- FREE OF VARIATION DUE TO ASSIGNABLE CAUSE -- SAMPLING CONSIDERATIONS -- USING CONTROL CHART DATA -- WHEN CONTROL CHART DATA ARE NOT USED -- LONG AND SHORT RUN CAPABILITY STUDIES -- Chapter 3 MEASURING PROCESS CAPABILITY -- FIRST GENERATION MEASURES AND THEIR ESTIMATORS -- THE PROCESS CAPABILITY INDEX, Cp -- Example -- THE CAPABILITY INDICES - Cpl, Cpu, Cpk AND Cpm -- ASYMMETRIC SPECIFICATION LIMITS -- THE CAPABILITY INDICES - Cpl*, Cpu*, Cpk*, Cpm* AND Cpmk -- CONSOLIDATING THE CAPABILITY INDICES, Cpw -- INTERPRETING PROCESS CAPABILITY MEASURES -- Example -- ALTERNATIVE MEASURE OF PROCESS CAPABILITY INDEX -- Example -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READINGS -- Chapter 4 ANALYZING PROCESS CAPABILITY STUDIES -- THE OC CURVE APPROACH FOR ANALYZING pCˆ -- THE OC CURVE APPROACH FOR ANALYZING pkCˆ -- THE OC CURVE APPROACH TO ANALYZING pmCˆ -- Example -- A BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR ANALYZING Cp, Cpm, Cpk ; AND Cpmk -- Example -- MORE BAYESIAN INTERVALS -- Example -- THE BAYESIAN VERSUS OC CURVE APPROACH -- OTHER APPROACHES FOR ANALYZING pCˆ -- ANALYZING pgCˆ -- ANALYZING pwCˆ -- UNILATERAL AND NON-SYMMETRIC SPECIFICATION LIMITS -- AN OC CURVE APPROACH FOR ANALYZING *ˆpmC -- BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR Cpm* AND Cpmk -- HISTOGRAMS AND CONTROL CHARTS -- NORMAL PROBABILITY PAPER AND PROCESS CAPABILITY PAPER -- A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF PROBABILITY PLOTS -- Example -- PROCESS CAPABILITY PAPER USING MATHEMATICA -- PROCESS CAPABILITY PAPER ENHANCEMENTS.; ADDITIONAL VIEWS IN SUPPORT OF PROCESS CAPABILITY PAPER -- PROCESS CAPABILITY CHART -- Example -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READINGS -- Chapter 5 EFFECTS OF NON-NORMALITY -- EFFECTS OF NON-NORMALITY ON pm -- GENERAL EFFECTS OF NON-NORMALITY -- Example -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READINGS -- Chapter 6 MULTIVARIATE MEASURES OF PROCESS CAPABILITY -- MULTIVARIATE SPECIFICATION LIMITS -- MULTIVARIATE PROCESS CAPABILITY -- A MULTIVARIATE PROCESS CAPABILITY MEASURE -- Example -- COMMENTS -- Example -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 7 ASSESSING CAPABILITY IN THE PRESENCE OF SYSTEMATIC ASSIGNABLE CAUSE -- Example -- DETERMINING PROCESS CAPABILITY WITHIN A LIFECYCLE -- Example -- MANAGING THE PROCESS USING CAPABILITY MEASURES -- Example -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 8 ESTABLISHING, MEASURING, ASSESSING &amp -- IMPROVING PROCESS CAPABILITY -- PROCESS BACKGROUND -- CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT -- TURNING THE RESULTS INTO DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS -- MONITORING THE PROCESS -- IMPROVING THE PROCESS -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 9 CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR SHORT RUN/LOW VOLUME PROCESSES -- ASSESSING, ESTIMATING AND TRACKING PROCESS CAPABILITY -- MULTIVARIATE EXTENSION -- REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work illustrates the use of the most common process capability indices. The hope is that it will foster the safe use and development of PCIs among practitioners and researchers.