A review of the literature on cause selecting charts (CSCs) in MULTISTAGE PROCESSES is
given, with a concentration on developments which have occurred since 1993. Model based …

The objective of this study was to analyze the main topics studied on the subject of
modularization in 81 academic articles published between 1999 and 2013 in international …

Variation reduction in critical-to-quality outputs is often the primary goal in manufacturing
process improvement projects. Identifying the cause of output variation is recommended as …

In most modern manufacturing systems, products are often the output of several correlated
stages. Nevertheless, quality of a product or process in both single and multistage …

Most recent production processes comprise multiple stages, where the final quality of
products is determined by the upstream effects of output quality at each stage. Moreover, the …

Monitoring high-dimensional multistage processes becomes crucial to ensure the quality of
the final product in modern industry environments. Few statistical process monitoring (SPC) …

Multistage process monitoring and fault identification are currently receiving considerable
attention. This article focuses on detecting common faults in a multistage process that affect …

Product quality problem is a critical issue for multistage manufacturing processes, especially
in continuous production lines whereby quality characteristics are measured at the end of …

The effective monitoring of the multi-stage process in the modern manufacturing and service
processes is crucial in maintaining and improving the final output quality. The essential of …

A critical challenge in multistage process monitoring is the complex relationships between
quality characteristics at different stages. A popular method to deal with this problem is …