A First Course in Quality Engineering, 3rd Edition

5Quality in Production—Process Control II

This chapter is a continuation of Chapter 4 and includes some additional material on process control and related topics. The three types of control charts—$\overline{X}$- and R-charts, the P-chart, and the C-chart—that were discussed in Chapter 4 would cover the majority of situations requiring process control in the real world, and the few minor variations of these charts included in the last chapter would cover a few additional, special situations. Many other situations, however, call for even more variations of the basic charts because of practical necessities. In this chapter, we will address some of these special ...