A compound control chart for monitoring and controlling high quality processes

In the present article, we propose a new control chart for monitoring high quality processes. More specifically, we suggest declaring the monitored process out of control, by exploiting a compound rule couching on the number of conforming units observed between the (i-1)th and the ith nonconforming item and the number of conforming items observed between the (i-2)th and the ith nonconforming item. Our numerical experimentation demonstrates that the proposed control chart, in most of the cases, exhibits a better (or at least equivalent) performance than its competitors. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.