Are Acceptance Sampling and SPC Complementary or Incompatible?
Copyright: 1993, ASQC Author: Sower, Victor E.; Motwani, Jaideep; Savoie, Michael J. Organization: Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX Subject: Acceptance sampling,Defects,Deming, W. Edwards,Manufacturing,Process control,Statistical process control (SPC); Series: Quality Progress, Vol. 26, No. 9, September 1993, pp. 85-89 Abstract: Inspection of sampling of a product after it has been produced can be integrated with techniques to control the processes that produce the product. The former activity is acceptance sampling, and the latter is statistical process control (SPC). There is disagreement as to which is more appropriate, but actually the two activities should be integrated into the manufacturing environment. W. Edwards Deming and others are concerned that acceptance sampling makes it unavoidable for some customers to get defective products. Douglas C. Montgomery and others argue that acceptance sampling is more appropriate when quality control efforts are immature, wherea
