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Process capability indices(PCIs) have been used in manufacturing industries to provide a quantitative measure on process potential and performance.In fact, the formulate for these indices are easy to understand and straightforward to apply.But since,since sample datamust be collected in order to calculate thess indices, a great degree of uncertainty may be introduced into capability assessments due to sampling errors.Currently, most practitioners simply look at the value of the index calculated from the sample data and then make a conclusion on whether the given process meets the capability requirement. This is not reliable since sampling errors are ignored. Cheng(1994) and Pearn andChen (1997) have developed a procedure for using estimators of Cp,Cpk and Cpm for practitioners to use to determine whether a process meets thecapability requirement or not.However,no procedure for Cpmk was given because difficultieswas encountered in calculating the sampling distribution of theestimator of Cpmk. In this paper, we develop a procedure similar to Cp,Cpk and Cpm for the index Cpmk.
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