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Control Charts may be the most powerful tool to demonstrate and to assure quality in chemical measurements. Therefore they are widely used in all kinds of laboratories and it is hard to imagine quality management systems in laboratories without control charts.

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  1. Institute for Sanitary Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Bandtäle 2, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Koch

  2. Dottikon Exclusive Synthesis AG Quality management, 5605, Dottikon, Switzerland

    Michael Gluschke

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  1. FB 8 Chemie, Inst. Analytische Chemie I, Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, Siegen, 57068, Germany

    Bernd W. Wenclawiak

  2. Inst. Siedlungswasserbau, Wassergüte-und, Abfallwirtschaft, Universität Stuttgart, Bandtäle 1, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany

    Michael Koch

  3. , Kennedy Business Center, Quintessence Enterprises Ltd., 12-14 Kennedy Avenue, Nicosia, 1087, Cyprus

    Evsevios Hadjicostas

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Koch, M., Gluschke, M. (2010). Control Charts. In: Wenclawiak, B., Koch, M., Hadjicostas, E. (eds) Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13609-2_13

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