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In the subject of statistical quality control, the word control bears a special technical meaning. A manufacturing process is said to be in control when a stable system of chance causes seems to be operating. However, this word is often misinterpreted by saying that a process is in control only when it has no variation.

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    It can be a group of 10 units of products or 50 units of products.

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Correspondence to Dharmaraja Selvamuthu .

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Selvamuthu, D., Das, D. (2024). Control Charts. In: Introduction to Probability, Statistical Methods, Design of Experiments and Statistical Quality Control. University Texts in the Mathematical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9363-5_16

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