Phase-I monitoring of standard deviations in multistage linear profiles

Subject Areas : Mathematical Optimization

Mahdiyeh Kalaei ¹ , Paria Soleimani ² , Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki ³

1 - Industrial Engineering Department, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, 15875-1774, Tehran, Iran
2 - Industrial Engineering Department, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Industrial Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, 11155-9414, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-10-06 Accepted : 2020-10-06 Published : 2018-03-01

Keywords: Multistage processes . Cascade property . Profile monitoring . Phase I,

Abstract :

In most modern manufacturing systems, products are often the output of some multistage processes. In these processes, the stages are dependent on each other, where the output quality of each stage depends also on the output quality of the previous stages. This property is called the cascade property. Although there are many studies in multistage process monitoring, there are fewer works on profile monitoring in multistage processes, especially on the variability monitoring of a multistage profile in Phase-I for which no research is found in the literature. In this paper, a new methodology is proposed to monitor the standard deviation involved in a simple linear profile designed in Phase I to monitor multistage processes with the cascade property. To this aim, an autoregressive correlation model between the stages is considered first. Then, the effect of the cascade property on the performances of three types ofT2control charts in Phase I with shifts in standard deviation is investigated. As we show that this effect is significant, aUstatistic is next used to remove the cascade effect, based on which the investigated control charts are modified. Simulation studies reveal good performances of the modified control charts.