In-process quality improvement: Concepts, methodologies, and applications
本文介绍了复杂制造系统中过程质量改进的概念、方法与应用，强调利用过程传感数据实现监控、诊断和控制，替代传统质量控制方法，并讨论了数据丰富环境下的挑战与机遇。
This article presents the concepts, methodologies, and applications of In-Process Quality Improvement (IPQI) in complex manufacturing systems. As opposed to traditional quality control concepts that emphasize process change detection, acceptance sampling, and offline designed experiments, IPQI focuses on integrating data science and system theory, taking full advantage of in-process sensing data to achieve process monitoring, diagnosis, and control. The implementation of IPQI leads to root cause diagnosis (in addition to change detection), automatic compensation (in addition to off-line adjustment), and defect prevention (in addition to defect inspection). The methodologies of IPQI have been developed and implemented in various manufacturing processes. This paper provides a brief historical review of the IPQI, summarizes the developments and applications of IPQI methodologies, and discusses some challenges and opportunities in the current data-rich manufacturing systems. Future research directions are discussed at the end of the article with a special focus on leveraging emerging machine learning tools to address quality improvements in data-rich advanced manufacturing systems.