Often the manufacturing and the inspection workstations in a manufacturing process can coincide: thus, in these workstations the statistical process control (SPC) procedure of collecting sample statistics related to a critical-to-quality parameter is a task required to be done by the same worker...

Purpose – The search of the optimal economic design of the Bayesian adaptive control charts for finite production runs can be a long and tedious procedure due to the intrinsic structure of the optimization problem, which requires a dynamic programming approach to select the best decision at...