edcc (version 1.0-0)

ecoXbar: Economic design for the X-bar control chart

Description

Calculate the optimum parameters, n(sample size), h(sampling interval) and L(number of s.d. from control limits to center line) for Economic Design of the X-bar control chart .

Usage

ecoXbar(h, L, n, delta = 2, lambda = 0.05, P0 = NULL, P1 = NULL, C0 = NULL, C1 = NULL, Cr = 25, Cf = 50, T0 = 0.0167, Tc = 1, Tf = 0, Tr = 0, a = 1, b = 0.1, d1 = 1, d2 = 1, nlevels = 30, sided = "two", par = NULL, contour.plot = FALSE, call.print = TRUE, ...)
  echXbar(h, L, n, delta = 2, lambda = 0.05, P0 = NULL, P1 = NULL, C0 = NULL, C1 = NULL, Cr = 25, Cf = 50, T0 = 0.0167, Tc = 1, Tf = 0, Tr = 0, a = 1, b = 0.1, d1 = 1, d2 = 1, sided = "two")

Arguments

h

sampling interval. It can be a numeric vector or left undefined. See 'Details'

L

number of standard deviations from control limits to center line. It can be a numeric vector or left undefined. See 'Details'

n

sample size. It can be an integer vector or left undefined. See 'Details'

lambda

we assume the in-control time follows an exponential distribution with mean 1/lambda. Default value is 0.05.

delta

shift in process mean in standard deviation units when assignable cause occurs (delta = (mu1 - mu0)/sigma), where sigma is the standard deviation of observations; mu0 is the in-control process mean; mu1 is the out-of-control process mean. Default value is 2.

P0

profit per hour earned by the process operating in control. See 'Details'.

P1

profit per hour earned by the process operating out of control(P0 > P1).

C0

cost per hour due to nonconformities produced while the process is in control.

C1

cost per hour due to nonconformities produced while the process is out of control.(C1 > C0)

Cr

cost for searching and repairing the assignable cause, including any downtime.

Cf

cost per false alarm, including the cost of searching for the cause and the cost of downtime if production ceases during search.

T0

time to sample and chart one item.

Tc

expected time to discover the assignable cause.

Tf

expected search time when false alarm occurs.

Tr

expected time to repair the process.

a

fixed cost per sample.

b

cost per unit sampled.

d1

flag for whether production continues during searches (1-yes, 0-no). Default value is 1.

d2

flag for whether production continues during repairs (1-yes, 0-no). Default value is 1.

nlevels

number of contour levels desired. Default value is 30. It works only when contour.plot is TRUE.

sided

distinguish between one- and two-sided X-bar chart by choosing ``one'' or ``two'' respectively. When sided = ``one'', delta > 0 means the control chart for detecting a positive shift, and vice versa. Default is ``two''.

par

initial values for the parameters to be optimized over. It can be a vector of length 2 or 3. See 'Details'

contour.plot

a logical value indicating whether a contour plot should be drawn. Default is FALSE. Only works when the parameters h, L and n are all specified.

call.print

a logical value indicating whether the "call" should be printed on the contour plot. Default is TRUE

...

other arguments to be passed to optim function.

Value

The ecoXbar function returns an object of class "edcc", which is a list of elements optimum, cost.frame, FAR and ATS. optimum is a vector with the optimum parameters and the corresponding ECH value; cost.frame is a dataframe with the optimum parameters and the corresponding ECH values for all given n(if n is not specified, cost.frame won't be returned); FAR indicates the false alarm rate during the in-control time, which is calculated as lambda*(average number of false alarm); ATS indicates the average time to signal after the occurrence of an assignable cause, calculated as h*ARL2 - tau, where tau is the expected time of occurrence of the assignable cause given it occurs between the i-th and (i+1)st samples. The echXbar function returns the calculated ECH value only.

Details

When parameter par is specified, optimization algorithms would be used as default. par can be specified as: par = c(h, L) where h and L are the initial values of smapling interval and control limit when n is specified; or par = c(h, L, n). Good inital values may lead to good optimum results.

When parameters h, L, n are all undefined, ecoXbar function will try to find the global optimum point to minimize the ECH (Expected Cost per Hour) using optimization algorithms (optim function), but in this case n would not be integer. It is usually helpful for the experimenter to find the region where the optimum point may exist quickly. When h and L are undefined but n is given as an integer vector, ecoXbar function will try to find the optimum point for each n value using optimization algorithms. When h, L and n are all given, ecoXbar function will use the "grid method" to calculate the optimum point, that is ECH for all the combinations of the parameters will be calculated. The "grid method" way is much slower than using optimization algorithms, but it would be a good choice when optimization algorithms fail to work well.

For cost parameters either P0, P1 or C0, C1 is needed. If P0 and P1 are given, they will be used first, else C0 and C1 will be used. For economic design of the X-bar chart, when d1 and d2 are both 1, only if the difference between P0 and P1 keeps the same, the results are identical. If the difference between C0 and C1 keeps the same, the optimum parameters are almost the same but the ECH(Expected Cost per Hour) values will change.

echXbar is used to calculate the ECH (Expected Cost per Hour) for one given design point.

References

Weicheng Zhu, Changsoon Park (2013), edcc: An R Package for the Economic Design of the Control Chart. Journal of Statistical Software, 52(9), 1-24. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v52/i09/

Douglas (2009). Statistical quality control: a modern introduction, sixth edition, 463-471.

Lorenzen and Vance (1986). The economic design of control charts: a unified approach, Technometrics, 28. 3-10.

See Also

ecoCusum, ecoEwma, contour, optim, update.edcc

Examples

# Douglas (2009). Statistical quality control: a modern introduction, sixth edition, p470.
# In control profit per hour is 110, out of control profit per hour is 10
ecoXbar(P0=110,P1=10)
# In control profit per hour is 150, out of control profit per hour
# is 50, the result is identical with the previous one, because the
#difference between P0 and P1 are the same
ecoXbar(P0=150,P1=50)
# In control cost per hour is 0, out of control cost per hour is 100.
# The result is the same with the previous one
ecoXbar(C0=0,C1=100)
# The optimum parameters are the same with the previous one,
# but Cost values are different. See 'details'
ecoXbar(C0=10,C1=110)
# Based on the global optimum above, we specify the range of the
# parameters like this
x <- ecoXbar(h=seq(0.7,0.9,by=.01),L=seq(2.8,3.3,by=.01),n=4:6,P0=110,
P1=10,nlevels=50,contour.plot=TRUE)
x
# Modify the contour plot
contour(x,nlevels=20,lty=2,col=2,call.print=FALSE)
# update the parameters
update(x,P0=NULL,P1=NULL,C0=10,C1=110)