BIS.Net Team
Hybrid SPC combines old technology with modern machine powered technology to provide greater insights into the process than possible with either technology alone.
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There are two alternatives with regards to sample size for inferences. One alternative is to take a sample size considered to be economical and practical, or as dictated by circumstances.
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Inferences are required in every aspect of life by every creature. There are many complex definitions of the meaning of inferences.
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Analysis is about converting data into information to help make decisions. But how much information do we need? This article concerns the problem of information overload.
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Academia has also fallen into the trap of overcomplicating. Of course, academic thinking is at a higher than normal level of thinking, at a level of complexity that the average person will not understand.
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No measuring device is perfect. There will always be a small amount of error, some due to faults and imperfections with the equipment, some due to robustness problems with ambient conditions, some due to inadequate training, and many other reasons.
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There has been considerable controversy over the use and benefits of Acceptance Sampling. The objective of this small article is to provide a balanced perspective for practitioners to decide for themselves whether to apply or not apply acceptance sampling as an additional form of quality protection.
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Knowing the proportions of some occurrence over all possible occurrences is important in countless applications.
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Dr Juergen Ude
So how can normally distributed data be so much out of control? The individual data is normal, the sampling distribution is normal.
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BIS.Net Team
Inferences about proportions are needed in a large variety of situations. Examples of questions asked by analysts are:
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One school of thought suggests that Process Performance should only be performed during Phase I of SPC applications and Process Capability during phase II.
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Dr Juergen Ude
Change Analysis is used to detect changes in chronological ordered data. Using machine power algorithms, combined with statistical significance testing, changes in the process average, standard deviation and slopes can be rapidly detected.
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Dr Juergen Ude
Although the term Statistical Process Control covers more than Control Charts this article focuses only on statistically based control charts, recently also known as process behavior charts.
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Dr Juergen Ude
Machine learning has recently become popular to the extent that it has received a somewhat mythical status, as is the norm with the latest ‘fads’. Historically there have been many ‘fads’ of which, TQM, Kaizen, JIT, 6 Sigma, Analytics, AI are some examples.
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Dr Juergen Ude
Considerable academic research has been performed on Survey Analysis, under the topics of Categorial Analysis and Contingency Tables. Much of the technology originated between 50 to 300 years ago and can be considered out-of-date.
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