The synthetic Xbar chart for monitoring autocorrelated processes

• Grant number: 09/14716-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2009
• End date: October 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering - Production Management
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Fernando Branco Costa
• Grantee: Alex Ferrari Monteiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this project, we intend to study, by simulation, the properties of the Synthetic Xbar Chart when the observations are not independent but described by an AR(1) model. The average number of samples until signal will be the parameter to measure the charts performance.