A prototype software to select and construct control charts for short runs

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Doğancı, Hakan

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Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) were founded to improve the activity and effectiveness of small industries, to provide economic and social needs of the country, to increase the competitive level of the country, and to establish integration in the industry. In today̕s competition conditions, SMEs should continuously improve themselves; otherwise, they could lose their market shares. One of the major problems encountered in Turkish SMEs is poor quality activities; especially, not being able to exploit the Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques. Production runs become shorter and shorter, and the product variety seems to be ever increasing, which cause short production runs. Using traditional control charts for short production runs can yield wrong and costly results. Instead of traditional control charts, short run charts such as Difference Charts (DNOM), Zed Charts, and Zed-Star Charts should be preferred.For this purpose, software that not only constructs short run control charts but also implements charts by tests to solve the problems of SMEs is developed. A Control Chart Selection Wizard, which is capable of emulating human expertise in finding a suitable control chart according to the user response for different cases is developed and added as a subprogram. Software was tested at Arçelik Dishwasher Plant in Ankara. The overall evaluation of the developed software, as regards the user, was satisfactory. The software can meet some requirements of the SMEs.

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Mechanical engineering.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605406/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14368

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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H. Doğancı, “A prototype software to select and construct control charts for short runs,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.