Statistical quality control in high reliability systems

"This book addresses two key issues in modern manufacturing, the selection of the best statistical quality control charts to use, and the use of buffer inventories after a process to further reduce the cost of quality. The book develops cost minimization algorithms which are applied to the Shewhart c, Cumulative Sum and Geometric Moving Average control charts. The cost performance of these charts is studied as the overall quality of a manufacturing system increases. The c chart is the less expensive chart at relatively low quality levels, and the Cumulative Sum chart surpasses both the c and Geometric Moving Average chart at medium and high quality levels."--Pref.