IIE Transactions articles from December 2006

IIE Transactions archives from December 2006

Warranty-based method for establishing reliability improvement targets.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction In order for product manufacturers to maintain their market positions in today's highly competitive global markets they must rely on continuous quality improvement programs as an essential part of business planning....

Detection and classification of defect patterns on semiconductor wafers.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction The manufacture of integrated circuits is a complex and costly process that involves hundreds of steps and requires the monitoring of many process parameters throughout the production process. Today, even using highly...

A data mining approach to study the significance of nonlinearity in multistation assembly processes.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Dimensional-variation control is very important for quality improvement in discrete-part manufacturing systems, which typically consist of multiple stations and operations to create sophisticated features on a product or to...

Optimizing settings by accounting for uncontrollable material and environmental variables.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction This paper presents a methodology to select process settings for a batch process characterized by multiple input and output variables. The input variables in a batch production system can be subdivided into one of two sets:...

A control chart based on a change-point model for monitoring linear profiles.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Statistical Process Control (SPC) is widely used to monitor industrial processes. Most of the academic research on SPC is focused on charting techniques. In most SPC applications, it is assumed that the quality of a process...

Design of exponential control charts using a sequential sampling scheme.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Control charts based on monitoring the time between events have been studied and applied in various areas. Besides applications to traditional manufacturing processes (see Chan et al. (2000)), the exponential control chart...

Control charts for the queue length in a G/G/S system.
December 1, 2006... 1. Introduction A queuing system is a service system in which customers arrive at random to receive service. If all the servers are busy a queue forms, and the delayed customers are then served as servers become available according to some...

Applied Data Mining: Statistical Methods for Business and Industry.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Applied Data Mining--Statistical Methods for Business and Industry Paolo Giudici John Wiley & Sons, 2003, 364 pages, ISBN 0-470-84678-X Applied Data Mining by Paolo Giudici is a good attempt to "establish a bridge between data...

Review of Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Review of Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning Tamraparni Dasu and Theodore Johnson John Wiley & Sons, 2003, 203 pages, ISBN 0-471-26851-8 Data mining has become a very popular subject due to computing facilities becoming less...