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  • Industrial Engineering
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Quality Management

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  • Traditional control charts often assume specific data distributions, limiting their applicability.
  • Detecting subtle shifts in process location is crucial for maintaining product quality and efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and evaluate a novel distribution-free control chart for identifying process location changes.
  • To introduce a mixed exponentially weighted moving average-moving average (EWMA-MA) chart utilizing a signed-rank statistic.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a distribution-free EWMA-MA control chart based on the signed-rank statistic.
  • Utilizing Monte Carlo simulation techniques to generate the run-length profile of the proposed chart.
  • Performance evaluation using symmetrical distributions and various individual/overall performance measures.

Main Results:

  • The proposed EWMA-MA control chart demonstrates superior performance compared to existing charts in detecting process location shifts.
  • The chart effectively utilizes recent and past sample information with differential weighting.
  • Run-length profile analysis confirms the chart's enhanced sensitivity and efficiency.

Conclusions:

  • The developed distribution-free EWMA-MA control chart offers a robust and effective tool for process monitoring.
  • The chart provides a practical solution for quality control, as demonstrated by its application in a gas turbine setting.
  • This research contributes a valuable, adaptable method to statistical process control literature.