Process control and economic cost design for total quality management

Abstract

For decades quality management has been developed based on the statistical techniques and quality improvement activities. This was achieved through better understanding of process control and economic cost design, which plays an important role in the statistical techniques and quality improvement activities. The integration of process control and economic cost design successfully reduced process output variability and improved process efficiency. In this paper, a review and recent works on the economic cost design, process control, and their applications are provided. Specifically, we summarise the related topics regarding the integrated process between process control and statistical techniques, explaining process controllers, process efficiency, and economic cost designs. The integration of process control and statistical techniques is shown as a research area and we promote further interest in its development and application in industry. A discussion of some research topics is also given, including future research topics.