An investigation of process capability indices

In industry today, process capability indices (PCI) are part of the day-to-day decision making in designing, process improvement, suppliers selection and many other important technical and business decisions. But, several statisticians and practitioners are beginning to say "Stop using CPk&q...

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Main Author: Pang, May Choo
Other Authors: Spedding, Trevor Allan
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13388
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:In industry today, process capability indices (PCI) are part of the day-to-day decision making in designing, process improvement, suppliers selection and many other important technical and business decisions. But, several statisticians and practitioners are beginning to say "Stop using CPk". This report provides an overview of the controversy sparked by process capability analysis, researches into the various process capability indices computation and normality testings, and discusses the applications of PCI on size and geometrical tolerance. Statistical software is used whenever applicable to analyze the data.