Abstract In the statistical process control literature, counts of nonconforming items are frequently assumed to be independent and have a binomial distribution with parameters (n,p) , where 𝑛 and 𝑝 represent the fixed sample size and the fraction nonconforming. In this paper, the...

Control charts are widely used to monitor the quality of industrial processes. It is quite common to assume that the random variable associated to the quality characteristic has a Normal distribution, and the control limits are defined so that the probability of obtaining a false alarm is...