Book for SPC Short Run - Recommendations

[Stevenli]

Folks,

For current manufacturing environment, tradtional SPC approach may not be suitable for many industries, especial for high mix, low volume. So I am studying some more appropriate methods.

So does any buddy can recommend some good books of this topics? I search from Amazon and found some short run SPC book, it looks like a little bit old as it's back to 20 years ago. Not sure whether all contents are updated.

Thanks
Steven

[Popeos]

Hi Stevenli

Are you sure you need SPC for this process ? It is not the only way to ensure conformance, and if you have a high mix, I might go for 100% inspection, depending on what you check.

SPC is for Process control. If your process parameters are always changing from one part to another, they might be auto-checked. If that is the case, and linked to frequent changes, I don't see how you will be able to do SPC.

(I am not an SPC expert though)

Regards

Popeos

[Darius]

In Reply to Parent Post by Stevenli

short run SPC book

I have the book wich touches the topic

Innovative Control Charting: Practical SPC Solutions for Today's Manufacturing Environment by Stephen A. Wise and Douglas C. Fair.

Short Run as you said is a new way to do SPC, so not every stats book deal with it.

[Jim Wynne]

In Reply to Parent Post by Stevenli

Folks,

For current manufacturing environment, tradtional SPC approach may not be suitable for many industries, especial for high mix, low volume. So I am studying some more appropriate methods.

So does any buddy can recommend some good books of this topics? I search from Amazon and found some short run SPC book, it looks like a little bit old as it's back to 20 years ago. Not sure whether all contents are updated.

Thanks
Steven

In Reply to Parent Post by Darius

I have the book wich touches the topic

Innovative Control Charting: Practical SPC Solutions for Today's Manufacturing Environment by Stephen A. Wise and Douglas C. Fair.

Short Run as you said is a new way to do SPC, so not every stats book deal with it.

"New" perhaps in a relative sense, but methods for short-run SPC have been around for quite a while. The OP has located a book at Amazon and is concerned that it might be out of date, but as far as I know statistical analysis hasn't changed for quite a while.

There's good information in this thread: How to Effectively Apply Short Run SPC. The book the OP might be referring to is Short Run SPC by Donald Wheeler, published in 1992. I'm not familiar with that book in particular, but it's hard to go wrong with Wheeler

[Stevenli]

In Reply to Parent Post by Darius

I have the book wich touches the topic

Innovative Control Charting: Practical SPC Solutions for Today's Manufacturing Environment by Stephen A. Wise and Douglas C. Fair.

Short Run as you said is a new way to do SPC, so not every stats book deal with it.

Darius,

How about that book just as you memtioned? It's recommended to read?

Thanks

Best Regards
Steven

[Darius]

I recommend it as a good reference book

It has description of the cases where the different kind of SPC apply (which in other books almost ever doesn't exist), and a brief example of each kind of method

It doesn't show the effect of autocorrelation on SPC moving range (XmR with autocorrelation, although not used for chats but the methodology for DS is there, "Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control" by Donald J. Wheeler - <doesn't touch Short Run>)

or Charts for Nonnormal Distributions (as can be found in Statistical methods for six sigma in R&D and manufacturing by Anand M. Joglekar)

But the methodology you described (HI, LO) is there.

[Stevenli]

Great with thanks and I will review the book from Amazon.

[johnnyel]

In Reply to Parent Post by Darius

I have the book wich touches the topic

Innovative Control Charting: Practical SPC Solutions for Today's Manufacturing Environment by Stephen A. Wise and Douglas C. Fair.

Short Run as you said is a new way to do SPC, so not every stats book deal with it.

Same here, great reference book.