• The concurrent use of statistical process control and engineering process con-trol involves monitoring manipulated and controlled variables. One multivari-ate control chart may handle the statistical monitoring of all variables, butobserving the manipulated and controlled variables in separate control chartsmay improve understanding of how disturbances and the controller perfor-mance affect the process. In this article, we illustrate how step and ramp dis-turbances manifest themselves in a single-input–single-output system bystudying their resulting signatures in the controlled and manipulated variables.The system is controlled by variations of the widely used proportional-integral-derivative(PID) control scheme. Implications for applying control charts forthese scenarios are discussed.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Tillförlitlighets- och kvalitetsteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Reliability and Maintenance (hsv//eng)

Keyword

control charts

disturbance signatures

engineering process control (EPC)

proportional-integral-derivative (PID)

statistical process control (SPC)

Kvalitetsteknik och logistik

Quality technology and logistics

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)