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Re:Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques... by BOOSTERHIDROGEN on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:42PM (#21153433)
Any example what you mean process control chart ? Is it in sense of process control theory ?
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Re:Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques... by analog31 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:18PM (#21153681)
This is a decent description:

https://asq.org/quality-resources/control-chart

This is not process control in the sense of feedback control theory. It refers to using statistics to monitor industrial processes. When people like Deming started promoting industrial quality control, it was their intention to provide very simple tools that any factory worker could use to monitor and improve processes on their own or in small groups. So they favored graphical analysis over sophisticated statistical tests. A basic control chart was easy for anybody to produce.

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