Journal article
Transition Monitoring and Adjustment for Dynamic Systems in a Process Improvement Environment
Quality and reliability engineering international, Vol.21(6), pp.621-632
10/2005
DOI: 10.1002/qre.679
Abstract
In manufacturing applications, we often encounter process transitions due to a changeover in the production or perhaps an unknown perturbation. The main process improvement goal is to shorten the transition time by monitoring the process in order to quickly identify the start and end of the transition period and by actively adjusting the process during the transition. To address these issues, we propose a transition monitoring and adjustment methodology. A polymer process is used to illustrate this methodology. Using simulation, we characterize the impact of the transition adjustment on the effectiveness of monitoring. We show that the adaptive monitoring procedure is robust to small transition adjustments, thus supporting a complimentary application of process monitoring and process adjustment to improve process transitions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transition Monitoring and Adjustment for Dynamic Systems in a Process Improvement Environment
- Creators
- Harriet Black Nembhard - Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.AMing Shu Kao - 3M, Six Sigma Operations, St. Paul, MN 55144, U.S.A
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Quality and reliability engineering international, Vol.21(6), pp.621-632
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1002/qre.679
- ISSN
- 0748-8017
- eISSN
- 1099-1638
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2005
- Academic Unit
- Industrial and Systems Engineering; Engineering Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984121962802771
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