Optimize quality with a mathematical approach to inspection plans
This book delivers a rigorous framework for evaluating continuous sampling inspection plans and their outcomes. It explains how decision rules and sampling strategies affect the flow of defectives and the overall quality of production.
Readers will explore how Dodge-type continuous sampling plans are designed, analyzed, and compared using Markovian models and linear programming. The text shows how to express inspection levels, release numbers, and transition rules, and it demonstrates methods to compute the unrestricted average outgoing quality limit (UAOQL) for different plan classes. Concrete examples, including CSP-1, illustrate how theory translates into practical inspection decisions.
- Understand the key concepts: sampling levels, release numbers, inspection rules, and transition decisions.
- Learn how to model plan behavior as Markov processes and optimize with linear programming.
- See how different inspection strategies influence the flow of defectives and the final product quality.
- Apply the framework to evaluate and compare Dodge-type continuous sampling plans.
Ideal for readers of graduate-level operations research or quality control who want a solid, math-based method for assessing and improving continuous inspection systems.