Aims

At the end of this course, the students will have gain knowledge and a critical view of the statistical tools usefull in the setup of quality insurance policy, in process control and daily follow up of analytical devices. They will be able to apply these tools to industrial data sets.

Main themes

- Statistical tools for quality insurance
- Principles and classes of Shewhart control charts
- CUSUM and EWMA control charts
- Control charts for autocorrelated and multivariate data
- Capability analysis
- Decomposition of sources of variability. Gauge analysis.
- Reception sampling

Content and teaching methods

The themes discussed in this course are :
- Statistical tools for quality insurance
- Principles and classes of Shewhart control charts
- CUSUM and EWMA control charts
- Control charts for autocorrelated and multivariate data
- Capability analysis
- Decomposition of sources of variability. Gauge analysis.
- Reception sampling

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites
Basic course in statistics

Reference :
D. C. Montgomery, Statistical Quality Control. New York: Wiley, second edition

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