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    This document describes using an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart to monitor the process mean of paper bulk density in a paper industry. The EWMA chart is designed to be more sensitive than a Shewhart chart to small shifts in the process. Paper bulk density data was collected over 30 days from a paper company. The EWMA chart detected shifts in the bulk density process that indicated the process was out of control, signaling a need for process modification. The EWMA chart is appropriate for monitoring this continuous process variable and is robust to non-normal data.

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    This document describes using an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart to monitor the process mean of paper bulk density in a paper industry. The EWMA chart is designed to be more sensitive than a Shewhart chart to small shifts in the process. Paper bulk density data was collected over 30 days from a paper company. The EWMA chart detected shifts in the bulk density process that indicated the process was out of control, signaling a need for process modification. The EWMA chart is appropriate for monitoring this continuous process variable and is robust to non-normal data.

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    APPLICATION OF EWMA CHART FOR MONITORING PROCESS MEAN IN PAPER INDUSTRY

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    This document describes using an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart to monitor the process mean of paper bulk density in a paper industry. The EWMA chart is designed to be more sensitive than a Shewhart chart to small shifts in the process. Paper bulk density data was collected over 30 days from a paper company. The EWMA chart detected shifts in the bulk density process that indicated the process was out of control, signaling a need for process modification. The EWMA chart is appropriate for monitoring this continuous process variable and is robust to non-normal data.

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    UNIVERSITI KUALA LUMPUR

    MALAYSIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL & BIOENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

    CPB 30603

    QA & QC IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

    APPLICATION OF EWMA CHART FOR MONITORING


    PROCESS MEAN IN PAPER INDUSTRY

    PREPARED FOR: AP. DR. ABBAS F. MUBAREK AL KARKHI

    GROUP MEMBERS ID

    AMIR IZZAT BIN MUSTAPHA 55213117173

    KHAIRUL FAIZ BIN KHAIRUL SALEH 55213118006


    Table of Contents

    1.0 Objective 1

    2.0 Introduction 1

    3.0 Method 2

    4.0 Justification 2

    5.0 References 3
    1.0 Objective

    To measure the bulb density of paper.

    2.0 Introduction

    It is not possible to produce all items of a product exactly alike through a production
    process; a certain amount of natural or inherent variability will exist always. The variability
    may arise due to the presence of assignable causes or chance causes. Though the chance
    causes cannot be eliminated, the assignable causes can be found out and eliminated. The
    use of statistical tools may help to determine the presence of assignable cause and give a
    warning to make adjustments in the process and avoid the process going out-of-control in near
    future. The statistical quality control techniques have been tried many times in the paper
    industry earlier, but there had always been a little bit of difficulty in exactly concluding the
    presence of assignable causes thus those techniques have been unsuccessful to some extent.
    There may be several technical reasons for this fact, but the main one is the non-acquaintance
    with certain control charts, referred to as special, and related to control continuous processes,
    as in the case of the paper machine. This paper tries to introduce the applicability of
    Exponentially Weighted Moving average (EWMA) control chart (Gan, 1993; Tang et al., 2018)
    in paper industry, useful in detecting small shifts in the process.

    1
    3.0 Method

    Bulk is used to measure the paper thickness to its weight in centimeter per gram (gsm).
    Basis weight is another property of paper that need to be known to determine bulk. Thickness
    or also known caliper can be measured with the used of micrometer. The data set will be
    collected from the company within the time interval of 30 days. The bulk density of paper in a
    day’s production various time points is gathered from a paper industry analyzed through
    EWMA control chart. The EWMA control chart is very effective against small process shifts.
    The design parameters of the chart are the multiple of sigma used in the control limits (L) and
    the value of λ. The suggested values of L are between about 2.6 and 2.8 and λ is 0.1
    (Montgomery, 2007). This procedure creates an EWMA individuals chart Bulk density. It is
    designed to determine whether the data come from a process which is in a state of statistical
    control.

    Parameter Sample Size,n Number of sample,m


    Bulk Density 4 30 days

    4.0 Justification

    The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart is a good


    alternative to the Shewhart control chart (Schilling & Nelson, 1976; Shewhart, 1931; Wheeler,
    1996; Liu et al., 2007) when we are interested in detecting small shifts (Braimah et al., 2014;
    Costa & Rahim, 2016). The performance of the EWMA control chart is approximately
    equivalent to that of the cumulative sum control chart (Haq et al., 2018; Simões et al., 2010;
    You & Khoo, 2015) and in some ways it is easier to set up and operate (Jones et al., 2001).
    Even though the CUSUM charts indicates the presence of 1-sigma and 2-sigma shifts, all the
    points fall within the 3-sigma limits. However, the EWMA chart detects the shifts in the process
    and at the same time, it indicates the process out of control, thereby giving signal for some
    modification in the process. The EWMA can be viewed as a weighted average of all past and
    current observations, it is very insensitive to the normality assumption. It is therefore an ideal
    control chart to use with individual observations (Montogomery, 1996).

    2
    5.0 References

    Braimah, O. J., Osanaiye, P. A., Omaku, P. E., Saheed, Y. K., & Eshimokhai, S. A. (2014). On
    the use of exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart in monitoring road
    traffic crashes. International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics Invention (IJMSI), 2(5), 01-
    09.

    Costa, A. F. B., & Rahim, M. A. (2006). A single EWMA chart for monitoring process mean
    and process variance. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 3(3), 295-305.

    Gan, F. F. (1993). An optimal design of EWMA control charts based on median run length.
    Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 45(3-4), 169-184.

    Haq, A., Gulzar, R., & Khoo, M. B. (2018). An efficient adaptive EWMA control chart for
    monitoring the process mean. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 34(4), 563-
    571.

    Jones, L. A., Champ, C. W., & Rigdon, S. E. (2001). The performance of exponentially
    weighted moving average charts with estimated parameters. Technometrics, 43(2), 156-167.

    Montgomery, D. C. (2007). Introduction to statistical quality control. John Wiley & Sons.

    Schilling, E. G., & Nelson, P. R. (1976). The effect of non-normality on the control limits of X
    charts. Journal of Quality Technology, 8(4), 183-188.

    Shewhart, W. A. (1931). Economic control of quality of manufactured product. ASQ Quality


    Press.

    Simões, B. F., Epprecht, E. K., & Costa, A. F. (2010). Performance comparisons of EWMA
    control chart schemes. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 7(3), 249-261.

    Tang, A., Castagliola, P., Sun, J., & Hu, X. (2018). The effect of measurement errors on the
    adaptive EWMA chart. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 34(4), 609-630.

    Wheeler, D.J. (1996). Advanced topics in statistical process control. Knoxville, SPC (2nd
    Edition)

    You, H. W., & Khoo, M. B. (2015). A study on a memory type EWMA control chart with
    unknown process parameters. In Research and Education in Mathematics (ICREM7).

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