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A New Approach for Describing and Controlling Process Capability

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Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control

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The objective of process capability analysis consists of analysing the process capability of a production process in order to assess whether or not the process meets given specifications. There may not exist an exact definition of the term “process capability” but in the literature there is an agreement to consider a process as capable (e.g. Rodriguez [21]) if with high probability the (real-valued) characteristic Y of the produced items lies between some lower and upper specification limits LSL and USL. Therefore the idea of process capability implies that the fraction p of produced nonconforming items should be small if the process is said to be capable.

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Fink, J., Wolff, H. (1997). A New Approach for Describing and Controlling Process Capability. In: Lenz, HJ., Wilrich, PT. (eds) Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control. Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, vol 5. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59239-3_16

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