Date of Award
Spring 2017
Degree Name
Master of Science in Engineering
First Advisor
Dr. Lee J. Wells
Second Advisor
Dr. Steven E. Butt
Third Advisor
Dr. Azim Houshyar
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
Over the past half-century, Exponential Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) control charts have been widely used in Statistical Process Control to detect small and persistent process shifts. In theory, EWMA control limits monotonically increase over time to account for the continual growth of the EWMA statistic’s variance. These control limits are often assumed constant and are set to their respective asymptotic limits. While not theoretically correct, this simplifies the process of applying and analyzing the EWMA control chart while having little effect on the chart’s performance. One-Sided EWMA charts are often implemented when it is only desirable to detect shifts in a specific direction.
When using One-Sided EWMA charts, reflecting boundaries (resets) can be used to prevent the statistic from drifting too far from the chart’s control limit, which can delay shift detection. There have been several research efforts into the design and performance of One- Sided EWMA charts with reflecting boundaries; however, these efforts have maintained the constant control limit assumption. When implementing a reflecting boundary, the EWMA statistic’s variance constantly being reset to zero, which may significantly affect the constant control limit assumption’s validity. This study focused on understanding the impact into chart’s performance with and without the constant limit assumption. Such comprehension has led to interesting performance comparisons between One-sided time-varying limit EWMA scheme and the combined Shewhart-EWMA control chart.
Recommended Citation
Duong-Tran, Duy Anh, "Revisiting the One-Sided EWMA Control Chart Design" (2017). Masters Theses. 924.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/924