Operations Management
Operations Management
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Author: Stevenson
Publisher: MCG
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To determine: The importance of the order of observation control charts.

Introduction:

Control chart:

It is a graph used to analyze the process change over a time period. A control chart has a upper control limit, and lower control which are used plot the time order.

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