Designing optimal double-sampling plan based on process capability index

One of the methods to improve process quality is to analyze process capability. Process capability can be quantified by process capability index. These indexes have many applications in quality control methods and acceptance sampling plans. In this paper, we introduce a double-sampling plan based on process capability index. In this type of scheme, under a decision rule and with the specified rejection and acceptance numbers, the second sample is selected and the decision of rejection or acceptance is made based on the information obtained from two samples. The purpose of this scheme is to reduce the average sample number in order to reduce the time and cost of sampling. A comparison study has been performed in order to evaluate the performance of proposed method with regards to classical single sampling methods.

Keywords:

Acceptance sampling plan , Double-sampling plan , Process Capability Indices , Average sample number