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Daniel R. McCarville Motorola Inc.
Abstract
In many manufacturing settings, a senes of gages is used to screen product before it is shipped to the customer. The semiconductor industiy is a typical example of an industry where this type of serial inspection is used. A common problem is determining the target for each gage so that gage losses (good units classified as defective by the system of gages) and defect levels (defective units passed by the system of gages and sent to the customer) are at
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